Review: Two documentaries distill the struggle of political dissent in China decades apart

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The documentaries 'Beijing Spring' and 'Revolution of Our Times' look at the pro-democracy movement in 1970s China and contemporary Hong Kong, respectively.

briefly allowed as a means of protest in 1978 in his cagey attempt to separate himself from the recently deceased Mao Zedong.

With specificity, sweep and urgency, occasionally terrifying and bloody when capturing violent police tactics, Chow’s movie is a true epic of meaningful resistance. The street-level detail is gripping, from how strategically stationed protesters used the internet to communicate routes of escape and changes in tactics , to the coordination and camaraderie among students and slightly older protesters that created a makeshift family with a “mom” and “dad” figure.

Hewing to a timeline of the months-long protests that culminated in the tear gas-versus-Molotov cocktail confrontations at

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