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Alex Jackson is thrilled when his newsman father asks him to go to Beijing, China, where students and civilians are demonstrating for democracy in Tian An Men Square. Alex's excitement turns to horror and dismay when the movement is met with military violence and he finds himself alone amid the turmoil, carrying illegal video tapes, desperate to escape the forbidden city. Based on painstaking research, Forbidden City is an accurate and moving novel of the "Tian An Men Square Massacre."
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