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Down to the Countryside Movement
A Chinese policy that sent millions of urban youth, especially during the Cultural Revolution, to live and work in rural areas, officially to learn from the peasantry.
Tiananmen Incident (1976)
A large public demonstration in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in April 1976 mourning the death of Premier Zhou Enlai, dispersed by force and used as a pretext to purge Deng Xiaoping.