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1989
 
   
Confronted with mass popular protest, Deng Xiaoping imposes martial law in China      
1989
 
    
More than 2000 peaceful demonstrators die after troops open fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square       
1989
 
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With the fall of Pinochet, Chile returns eagerly to democracy - electing a Christian Democrat, Patricio Aylwin, as president       
1991
 
 
Gong Li plays a concubine of a Chinese warlord in Raise the Red Lantern, directed by Zhang Yimou    
1993
 
   
Work begins on China's ambitiious and controversial Three Gorges Dam project      
1993
 
 
Chen Kaige directs Farewell My Concubine, depicting the devastating effect of the Cultural Revolution on some performers of Peking opera    
1997
 
    
Deng Xiaoping dies and is succeeded by Jiang Zemin as China's leader       
1997
 
    
Hong Kong reverts to China with the end of Britain's 99-year lease of the New Territories       
1998
 
   
The British architectural firm of Foster & Partners completes the Hong Kong International Airport      
1998
 
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Augusto Pinochet, visiting Britain from Chile for medical treatment, is arrested on an extradition request from a Spanish judge