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A Chinese American basketball player is lost in Tiananmen Square in The Great Leap

by Catey Sullivan

Thirty years later, Lauren Yee's play depicts the events during the failed Chinese uprising with sympathy and surprising humor. In June, the Washington Post published an article about the June 4, 1989, slaughter in China's Tiananmen Square, when armed tanks and the Chinese army opened fire on tens of thousands of protesters peacefully demanding the country's repressive, authoritarian regi…

SOURCE: www.chicagoreader.com at 7:00am on September 18, 2019