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June 4th, 2008

Tiananmen Square - June 4

Posted by: Nick Mulvenney
Tags: Countdown to Beijing, , , ,

A young boy stands in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square after attending the flag raising ceremony at dawn

Tiananmen Square - June 4, 2008. 

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Pictures by David Gray. 

Nineteen years after the crushing of the pro-democracy protests and 65 days before the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, check out Chris Buckley’s feature on  the ‘08 generation and this video report on China’s new nationalism.

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