China Destroyed: A Look at the History Behind and Impact of the June 4th Incident When filming the events that occurred in Beijing, China on the 4th June 1989 they arrived into the world, many eyes witnessed a massacre. A collective cry for democracy had echoed throughout the city, and the resulting sound was that of gunshots. People from all walks of life who had united for a cause were now fleeing, terrified, from the armed arms of a government supposedly working for their best interests. A number of brave citizens have captured on camera the horrific clash between people's hopes and an iron block of oppression, and it is from these desperately filmed moments that the world at large draws its view of China's treatment communist to his people. The events they depicted became known to the world as “The Tiananmen Square Massacre,” and from then on the Western view of the heartland of China began to blur. It becomes difficult to understand the impact the incident had on the people involved and on China as a whole. Twenty years after the events of 1989, the grip of the communist regime has not loosened for the Chinese people. Since communism was formed in China, students have been continually persecuted for expressing their beliefs about their government. One hope for the people was that when the footage of the madness of June 4, 1989 reached the world, the political reform mechanism within China would be unstoppable. This hope, and the millions of hopes of an entire people, were extinguished with what remained of their freedom and, for many, of their lives. More than two decades later, the strict control over the citizens of the People's Republic of China and the traditional freedom of e...... middle of paper ...... remains and has resulted in the loss of hundreds of thousands of people, perhaps millions, of lives. (Gateway to Heavenly Peace)Works CitedMadsen, Richard. China and the American Dream: A Moral Inquiry. University of California Press, 1995. Ebook Collection (EBSCOhost). EBSCO. Network. 24 October 2011. The Gate of Heavenly Peace. Richard Gorden, Carma Hinton. The Long Bow Group, 1995. DVD "The Chinese people have stood up!" www.international.ucla.edu UCLA International Institute, nd Web. November 11, 2011. Hamish McDonald in Beijing with agencies. “The Tiananmen massacre is all too real for those still in prison.” Sydney Morning Herald, 6 June 2005: 10. Newspaper Source Plus. Network. 7 November 2011.Street, Nancy Lynch. In Search of the Red Buddha: Higher Education in China after Mao Zedong, 1985-1990. International Debate Education Association, 2004. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Network. November 2. 2011.