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Rewriting history


You won't be finding any of the above mentioned in the latest Harper Collins travel guide to the beautiful and smogstuffed city of Beijing,
One might find it a little surprising that HarperCollins is to publish a guide entitled Travel Around China to coincide with 2008's Beijing Olympics that will make no mention of the Tiananmen Square massacre. The 1989 protest that culminated in tanks firing on demonstrators killing hundreds is a taboo subject in China. Internet searches that would throw up results relating to the episode are censored. Newspapers do not mention it. link