In mid-1989, a push for democracy by Chinese university students swelled into mass protests as hundreds of thousands of citizens converged on Tiananmen Square, in a movement that later swept across China. But their calls for change were met with a brutal crackdown in the early hours of June 4. Afterwards, the ruling Communist Party branded the student movement a "counter-revolution". Student leaders were jailed. Some fled China to live in exile, while others remained in the country, being…
