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In June of 1989 a tragic historical event in china shocked the world. A well-organized group of college age students demonstrated against the Chinese Communist government. They wanted a form of democratic government. This essay gives a summary of the events that took place before, during, and after this tragic historical event. The student’s demonstration of June 4, 1989, was not the first protest in the 1980s. The student’s started demonstrating their dissatisfaction with Chinese government, late 1985 in Beijing and again in Shanghai on December 23, 1986. The students waved banners with slogans such as “Law, not Authoritarianism” and “Long Live Democracy.” During a November 1985 demonstration, 23 student protestors were arrested and suspected to be “ringleaders”. The Chinese government claimed to know because they had infiltrated both the student’s preparation planning and the demonstr