Summary Of Red China Blues By Mao Zedong

The Tiananmen Square massacre happened on June 4, 1989. Chinese troops arrested and killed many pro-democratic protesters at the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Young students were the majority of the protesters and they wanted the Chinese Communist Party to stop corruption. The protests started in May and continued into June, where they became more violent. When the troops opened fire on the protesters, some fought back. Grace’s description of the massacre was very accurate. She described it as very violent and the troops ran over protesters with tanks. Grace and her Mom went to the

According to Document C , the most fundamental concept of democracy “ is the idea that the government exists to secure the rights of the people and must be based on the consent of the governed ”.In the spring of 1989, Chinese university and high school students along with other protesters gathered in Tiananmen Square to protest against government. The protesters called out the government on corruption and demanded for a democracy. The results of Tiananmen Square was that the United States imposed diplomatic and economic sanctions on China. When the nation is based on consent of the governed, the ultimate authority is the people.

Growing up, Wang was also very independent from the people around her. During a personal email interview with Wang, she stated, “Yes, I think independent thinking is very important/courageous in a conformist society.” One important step Wang took in her life was to establish her own career path, instead of a traditional Chinese job, much like Lili. She wanted to pursue being an author, as well as study at an American University. Wang said of her parents, “They wished I had a ‘real’ job.” (“Beijing’s Badgirl” 2) While Wang lived in Beijing, she felt the need to independently support the movement in Tiananmen Square. She claimed “I went to Tiananmen for the freedom of press the freedom of everything” in an email interview. Ironically, it is Tiananmen itself that inspired her most independent work yet. Wang embarked on a journey to write a book on it, Lili, in English and all by herself. Incredibly, she accomplished this with little English experience beforehand, however, she was steadfast, saying “Sometimes I spent three days or a week just to search for a proper word […]” (“Conversation” 1) and finished ten years later. It was independent acts like these that were stirred into action by yet another value shared between Wang and her novel’s main character.

On June 5, 1989, soldiers and tanks from China's People’s Liberation Army physically oppressed the student led protesters. The events surrounding this day are referred to as the Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989, a democracy movement calling for political and social reforms in the Republic of China. The deaths that occurred as a consequence of the Tiananmen Square Protest was not the fault of the students, but rather, the disastrous situation of China beforehand, the common belief that demonstrations would succeed, and the government’s obstinate decisions.

After the Revolutionary war, many countries were influenced by the Declaration of Independence. During the year of 1989, protesters and students from a Chinese university crowded Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The group protested against the corruption of government and demanded a change to democracy. Unfortunately, the group was suppressed and the protest ended in tragedy, about 3,000 people were

On 23 April 1989 students of the twenty-one universities in Beijing participated in their first congress in the Summer Palace to discuss ways to improve the country, the CCP and to commemorate Hu. The protesters called for government accountability, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' control over industry, rallying together in Tiananmen Square. On the 2nd June, 350,000 soldiers circled Tiananmen Square and, between 10pm on 3 June and dawn on 4 June, soldiers took the Square and the surrounding

During Mao Zedong's rule in the 20th century, he envisioned the Cultural Revolution, but in order to successfully finish it, he needed the help of future generations. In his Little Red Book, which was created to guide the Red Guards and the Chinese Community, Mao stated, "...only through... our younger generation and all our people...can China be made strong..." Mao realizes that the Cultural Revolution will take several decades to be fully successful and to make a great impact in the Chinese community. With this statement in his Little Red Book, the young people realize that their help is needed for a stronger China, and since many idolize Mao, the children are easily brought up to follow this call to action made by Mao. In this same Little

The Tiananmen Square protests were characterised by student led demonstrations, which were a greater part of a question being asked at that time regarding how far China should reform. The protests began as a result of the death a Hu Yaobang, a Communist party general, who advocated for greater political and economic reform (Naughton, 2007). This had both short term and longer-term consequences. In the immediate, the government responded by declaring martial law and opening fire on civilians. However, in the longer term this would influence a view among CCP leadership that a strong propaganda system was necessary to ensure the parties political control. The time period was crucial for two reasons. First, it negatively impacted China’s

Jean-Philippe Béja argues this idea in examining the aftermath of the "Tiananmen Square Incident" in 1989, during which the People’s Liberation Army violently ended the protests of thousands of Chinese students in Beijing, injuring or killing between hundreds and thousands, and arresting close to 10,000 people after the fact. Béja claims that, because, despite the Chinese Communist Party's strong pressure for silence, Chinese Citizens continue to express their protests of government activity, now in less obvious ways, such as petitioning for human rights and democratization, the violent demonstration of political repression in 1989 had little to no effect on the expression of the Chinese

On 23 April 1989 students of the twenty-one universities in Beijing participated in their first congress in the Summer Palace to discuss ways to improve the country, the CCP and to commemorate Hu. Hu Yaobang was a high-ranking official of the Peoples’ Republic of China (PRC). Hu was a prominent and active representative of the educated in China and with his death, these people lost a passionate advocate for their freedoms and rights. The protesters called for government accountability, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the restoration of workers' control over industry, rallying together in Tiananmen Square. On June 2nd, 350,000 soldiers circled Tiananmen Square and, between 10pm on 3 June and dawn on 4 June, soldiers took the Square and the surrounding

While working as a librarians assistant Mao met Li Dazhao and Chen Duxiu who would become the founders of the Chinese Communist Party in which one day Mao would become leader of. Also at that time, in 1919 events would lead up to the May fourth movement, a sociopolitical and intellectual platform against the Paris Peace Conferences decision to give Japan territory in China from Germany. A movement led by Chen Duxiu which would culturally change young Chinese opinions against western liberalism in favor of Marxism or Leninism. Mao created many groups to protest Japan in the process of uniting students with merchants and other workers. Finally, in 1921 Mao solidified his Marxist ideals as to what the future of China should look like.

A free society is a democracy which is supposed to be run and governed by the citizens. In such a society, peaceful civil disobedience is the most basic form of protest against established laws. During the early 20th century, civil disobedience was successful in bringing widespread attention to an inherent flaw in the laws of the time. The British Suffragettes boycotted the census in protest of their inability to vote, refused to cooperate with the police, held mass marches and demonstrations, filled the jails, and disrupted public ceremonies. In China, although the communists ended up crushing the student protests in Tiananmen Square in a bloody massacre, the image of 19-year-old Wang Weilin blocking a line of tanks by standing in front of them is forever imprinted on the minds of generations as a symbol of resistance. Actions do speak louder than words, leaving a greater imprint on the lives of many. Wang’s disobedience to the established rules helped to create an image for the Chinese and others to rally

On April 1989, the Chinese communist's secretary of the committee Hu Yao B was dead, thousands of Beijing students gathered together to mourn. Some college students

Like the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the Tiananmen Square Protests was capitulated for the same reason; opposition towards a leader who had heavy rule over the country, in which the people had little say in the way the government was run. The authorities declared martial law, and mobilized more than 300,000 troops to Beijing in order to stop the protests from spreading throughout all of China. As a result, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in (known in China as “the July 4th Incident”) ended with roughly 500 fatalities. Today, it remains one of the most sensitive and heavily censored topics in all of

One of such events that shook the world became the student protest on Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, in 1989 which eventually