ABSTRACT

Those who were shocked by the June 1989, Beijing massacre and repression of pro-democracy demonstrators should not have been. Such cruelty and mass killing were a way of life in China, as the previous chapters show, but have become especially magnified in the People's Republic of China. Indeed, from October 1949 to 1987, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has probably killed 35,236,000 of its own subjects.