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Question: Tiananmen square!.!.!.!?
well first things first i may not have spelt that right!.!.!.

anyway i need to know how long the whole event was in the 80's like ASAP!.

the source i was using for this project doesnt make that much sense!.!.!.

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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
It took place for 51 days from April 15 and to June 4, 1989!.

The reason for the protest is this
Since 1978, Deng Xiaoping had led a series of economic and political reforms which had led to the gradual implementation of a market economy and some political liberalization that relaxed the system set up by Mao Zedong!.

Some students and intellectuals believed that the reforms had not gone far enough and that China needed to reform its political system!. They were also concerned about the social and political controls that the Communist Party of China still had!. This group had also seen the political liberalization that had been undertaken in the name of glasnost by Mikhail Gorbachev, so they had been hoping for comparable reform!.

The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were in large measure sparked by the death of former Secretary General Hu Yaobang!. Hu Yaobang's resignation from the position of Secretary General of the CPC had been announced on January 16, 1987!. His forthright calls for "rapid reform" and his almost open contempt of "Maoist excesses" had made him a suitable scapegoat in the eyes of Deng Xiaoping and others, after the pro-democracy student protests of 1986–1987 (Spence 1999, 685)!. Included in his resignation was also a "humiliating self-criticism", which he was forced to issue by the Central Committee of the Communist Party!. Hu Yaobang's sudden death, due to heart attack, on April 15, 1989 provided a perfect opportunity for the students to gather once again, not only to mourn the deceased Secretary General, but also to have their voices heard in "demanding a reversal of the verdict against him" and bringing renewed attention to the important issues of the 1986–1987 pro-democracy protests and possibly also to those of the Democracy Wall protests in 1978–1979 (Spence 1999, 697)


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You have spelled the name 'Tiananmen Square' correctly!.

If you need to know more information about the events that took place in Tiananmen Square in the 1980s, try asking specific questions!. For example, the people began convening in the square to mourn the passing of former General Secretary of the Communist Party Hu Yaobang!. The events began in mid-April and continued until early June, 1989!.

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