Had a discussion with a friend today where this came up. I’ve seen links here before about how Chinese people know about it, and can search for information online, but it just isn’t internally viewed in the propagandistic terms used in the imperial core. Anyone have some sources handy?
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On June 3, the turmoil created by a very small number of people in Beijing for more than a month developed into a counter-revolutionary riot. Martial law troops stationed around Beijing were ordered to quell the riots. In the early morning of the 4th, martial law troops cleared the area and entered Tiananmen Square to quell the riot.
here’s a machine translation of this page. This is from Baidu by the way. There’s plenty of stuff on Chinese internet about a student uprising from around that time that the government had to quell. The events start around April 15 on that page. You can try machine translating it and reading it
here’s an obituary for a soldier who passed away quelling the unrest
Another good article that mentions the Chinese perspective on it
