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Deng Xiaoping’s Reforms and the Tiananmen Square Massacre I FRONTLINE

9th Grade – 12th Grade

English

Learn how Chinese communist leader Deng Xiaoping reversed many of Chairman Mao’s economic policies by increasing free trade and entrepreneurial opportunities in these videos excerpted from FRONTLINE. Somewhat unexpectedly, these economic reforms led to demands for democratic reforms and freedoms, resulting in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protest and massacre.