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Tremble and Obey

Tremble and Obey

2019 · 48 min · Documentary

30 years on from the Chinese state's brutal put-down of a student-led pro-democracy protest in 1989, ABC Australia looks back through its video archive to unearth never-before-seen footage captured by its team on the ground. A watershed moment in a post-Mao China, the Communist Party has sought to erase all public discourse and memory of that day, making this record all the more significant.

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