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Coursework On China-Tiananmen Square How useful are sources A-D to a historian studying the main causes and events of the demonstration in Tiananmen Square in June 1998? (15 marks) Source A Source A is useful because it tells us about some of the causes, and events that occurred in Tiananmen Square in 1989. It tells us that 'thousands of students and other Beijing residents' were involved in the demonstration. Their goal was to get rid of the 'dictatorship of old men', from that we can tell that they wanted democracy. Many of the Chinese people wanted a democratic system to be put into place, like the ones that they had heard about in western countries. Deng's reforms allowed only the social aspect of life to be westernised. However, he was not prepared, in any way, to change the political aspect of life. If he allowed democracy to enter the Chinese political system then...

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