Traces the political relationship between the United States and China from the 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square to the end of the Clinton administration in 2000.
Seventeen-year-old Alex joined his father, a cameraman for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in China in 1989. As outsiders they faced a time of upheaval as political demonstrations began in Tian An Men Square.
Describes the events of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989, and covers economic reform in China, the beginnings of a pro-democracy movement, and how the Chinese government dealt with the aftermath of the massacre.
Chronicles the lives of three Chinese compatriots which reveals the defiant spirit that drives the struggle for democracy in China. Renders the inner workings of the Chinese democracy movement from its first tremors in 1976 to the present.