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conversations.value: Give me a plot for a story about Tiananmen, Gate, Heavenly entitled The Gate of Heavenly Peace.
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conversations.value: The Gate of Heavenly Peace: The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a three-hour documentary film about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, which culminated in the violent government crackdown on June 4.\nThe film uses archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens, including workers, students, intellectuals, and government officials, to revisit the events of "Beijing Spring.\n" From the beginning of the protests in mid-April to the night of June 3–4, the film provides a "meticulous day-by-day chronicle of the six-week period… This unglamorous but absorbing film interweaves videotaped scenes of the demonstrations and conversations with leaders and participants with an explanatory narration into an account that is as clear-headed as it is thorough and well-organized.\n" Among those interviewed are Liu Xiaobo, Wang Dan, Wuer Kaixi, Han Dongfang, Ding Zilin, Chai Ling, Dai Qing, Feng Congde, and Hou Dejian.\nIn addition, The Gate of Heavenly Peace examines the deeper history behind the demonstrations, providing historical and cultural context for the famous images that the Western media flashed around the world.\nThe film explores the symbolic importance of Tiananmen Square and also looks at earlier political movements in China from the May Fourth Movement of 1919 to the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76 to the Tiananmen Incident of 1976.\nIn so doing, the film considers the ways in which the political habits and attitudes that came to inform public life in China over the past century also shaped the events of 1989.\nPauline Chen writes: "The Gate of Heavenly Peace illuminates how images of these movements, filtered and refracted through propaganda, emotion, and imperfect memory, provided inspiration and models for the participants, both students and government, in the 1989 events.\nThe students thought they were emulating the May 4 leaders, forgetting that those students returned to school and worked for more gradual social change after successfully drawing attention to China\'s political and social problems.\nTo some Communist Party members, however, the 1989 mass student demonstrations may have chillingly recalled the chaos and terror of the Cultural Revolution.\nBoth the Cultural Revolution and the 1976 Tiananmen Incident attest to how extremists have used popular uprisings as excuses to get rid of their moderate rivals; the \'reactionary\' Deng Xiaoping, who favored greater economic freedom, was blamed by Mao for the 1976 Tiananmen Incident and forced from his position.\nUnfortunately, today\'s hard-liners have also learned the lesson from these events.\nThe moderate reformers Zhao Ziyang and Yan Mingfu, China\'s best hope for democratic reform, were ousted from power following the June 4 crisis.\n".
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conversations.value: Give me the first five paragraphs for this story.
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conversations.value: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
  Seventeenth-century China comes to life through this portrayal of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Zhang Dai was in his forties when the Ming dynasty was overthrown by the Manchu invasion of 1644. Having lost his fortune and way of life, Zhang Dai fled to the countryside and spent his final decades recounting the time of creativity and renaissance during Ming rule. This absorbing tale of Zhang Dai's life illuminates the transformation of a culture and helps us understand how China's history affects its place in the world today.
  From humble origins, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This sharply drawn account brings to life this modern-day emperor and the tumultuous era he shaped.
  In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming-dynasty China. Spence's compelling narrative captures the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life.
  In foot-binding, first practiced in the eleventh century A.D., the feet of young girls were tightly strapped in cloth so that they would remain small. Tiny feet were regarded as erotically stimulating, and by the nineteenth century the custom had become common throughout China despite the pain it caused.
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conversations.value: Add another sentence about China's, Qing, Spence, thrilling, Qing, created, surrounding.
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conversations.value: The Gate of Heavenly Peace
  Seventeenth-century China comes to life through this portrayal of Zhang Dai, recognized as one of the finest historians and essayists of the Ming dynasty. Zhang Dai was in his forties when the Ming dynasty was overthrown by the Manchu invasion of 1644. Having lost his fortune and way of life, Zhang Dai fled to the countryside and spent his final decades recounting the time of creativity and renaissance during Ming rule. This absorbing tale of Zhang Dai's life illuminates the transformation of a culture and helps us understand how China's history affects its place in the world today. 
  From humble origins, Mao Zedong rose to absolute power, unifying with an iron fist a vast country torn apart by years of weak leadership, colonialism, and war. This sharply drawn account brings to life this modern-day emperor and the tumultuous era he shaped. 
  In this thrilling story of a conspiracy against China's Qing dynasty, Spence has created a vivid portrait of the rich culture surrounding one of the most dramatic periods in Chinese history. 
  In 1577, the Jesuit Priest Matteo Ricci set out from Italy to bring Christian faith and Western thought to Ming-dynasty China. Spence's compelling narrative captures the complex emotional and religious drama of Ricci's extraordinary life. 
  In foot-binding, first practiced in the eleventh century A. D. , the feet of young girls were tightly strapped in cloth so that they would remain small. Tiny feet were regarded as erotically stimulating, and by the nineteenth century the custom had become common throughout China despite the pain it caused.
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conversations.value: In foot-binding, first practiced in the eleventh century A.D., the feet of young girls were tightly strapped in cloth so that they would remain small. Tiny feet were regarded as erotically stimulating, and by the nineteenth century the custom had become common throughout China despite the pain it caused.
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conversations.value: Give me the last four paragraphs.
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conversations.value: A rather euphemistic remark in view of the civil and foreign wars that had wracked the Qing since 1839.
  The first restrictive action against the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States had been taken by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882, and had been renewed in stronger terms by President Benjamin Harrison in 1892.
  Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi, about whom Liang Qichao had written a popular and influential group biography.
  This was Zhang Junmai, brother to Xu Zhimo's divorced wife, Zhang Youyi, now returned to China after his studies in Jena.
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conversations.value: A rather euphemistic remark in view of the civil and foreign wars that had wracked the Qing since 1839.
  The first restrictive action against the immigration of Chinese laborers into the United States had been taken by President Chester A. Arthur in 1882, and had been renewed in stronger terms by President Benjamin Harrison in 1892.
  Mazzini, Cavour, and Garibaldi, about whom Liang Qichao had written a popular and influential group biography.