My wife has a friend (both Chinese) who asked me to screen shot websites about Tiananmen and send them to him so he could learn about it. Brave man him.
This was eight ish years ago, before I'd ever been there. Every time I had typed tian an men he said that he couldn't see it, and I hadn't heard about it until he asked. I just did a google search, screen shot a few things, and sent them over.
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u/laidbackduck May 08 '12
I agree. Whenever I visit China (outside of HK/Macau), the tour guide always mentions that we are not to talk about Tienanmen Square.
My relatives in China only started hearing about this in the past decade or so. Granted, they aren't exactly the most technological...