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How useful are the sources A-I to a historian studying the main causes and events of the demonstration in Tiananmen Square June 1989?
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China In The Twentieth Century Question 1 - How useful are the sources A-I to a historian studying the main causes and events of the demonstration in Tiananmen Square June 1989? On the 22nd of April 1989, Chinese students collected together at Tiananmen Square to pay respects to Hu Yaobang, the students saw this as an opportunity to protest for democratic reform. Little did these students know this protest would end with tragic results. Deng blamed Hu Yaobang, a member of the Deng Xiaoping communist party, when students protested for political reform. Due to this he lost his position in the government but still remained in the politburo. His death on 15th April sparked the Tiananmen movement. Sources A, F and G are from books. Source A, the background to the Tiananmen Square incident from China in the 20th Century written in 1990 by Harriet Ward, a British Historian, who, unlike some Chinese...
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