STUDENTS IN CHINA: 20 YEARS AFTER TIANANMEN

The world in all its states

An episode from the series ARTE INVESTIGATION

Synopsis

Today’s Chinese students know nothing about the Tiananmen crackdown; remembering it is forbidden. An entire generation has grown up in a China transformed by the pressure individual success.

But something is changing on campuses: the economic crisis, unemployment, and the information spaces that the internet still allows are raising questions that the Party would rather suppress.

A portrait of a generation on the cusp between conformity and awakening.