The Causes Of The Tiananmen Square Protest Of 1989

Even with her previous experiences at Beijing University and at Big Joy Farm, Wong still held some belief that the Chinese system wasn’t as bad as it was sometimes made out to be. This event proved to her that it was. “The enormity of the massacre hit home…Although it had been years since I was a Maoist, I still had harbored some small hope for China. Now even that was gone” (259). As a reporter Wong was able to view the progression of the protests in leading up to the massacre, and in viewing it understood that the Chinese people were much more independent than they had previously demonstrated over the past 50 years. She had continuously seen the Chinese people following what they were told between learning in school or with physical labor, yet this protest was one of the first large scale displays of the unacceptance of the regime by the people, and the government did not know what to do with it. But because of this, Wong was able to recognize that the people were not reliant on this way of life that they had previously been bound to, but truly could lead for themselves and take control. The massacre awakened Wong both to the reality that the government was not acting to benefit the people, and that the people were more than capable of acting for

“There is danger0from all men.0The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man0living with power to endanger the0public liberty.” says Ayn Rand. The novel Forbidden City by William Bell tells us a real story about students and civilians democracy in0Beijing, China in 1989. The government no0longer works for people when the movement0becomes violent and a power struggle between the government and people appears. In a word, power0can take over0freedom when a certain0group of people controls it all, but it can’t control people’s0thoughts forever. Firstly, the setting shows the background0which is thousands of students were doing hunger strike in Tian An0Men Square because of freedom. The Character Lao Xu is one of the leaders in the activity of hunger strike Lao Xu sacrificed because saving students. Finally the conflict between China0and citizen shows that government cannot ignore any citizens and controls their thoughts.

In George Orwell’s novel, 1984, O’Brien drills the idea into Winston’s mind that reality is only truly present in the human mind. The Chinese government tries to establish this within the media, the internet, and the people of China. William Lutz’s essay, “No One Died in Tiananmen Square” reflects Orwell’s 1984 and the thoughts of the Party, such as re-education, and reality control.

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

Though termed the Tiananmen Square Massacre, this incident actually took place throughout China. What started out as a peaceful protest calling for political and economic reforms, soon turned to bloodshed. (Hu 2015)This greatly impacted China's international relationships. Contact between China and Western nations declined, official visits were suspended. Western powers imposed arms embargoes and economic sanctions, preventing the sale of military equipment, and approval of loans. (The National Bureau of Asian Research) Understanding the causes of the Tiananmen Square Massacre, and its effects on China’s international relationships, aids in better understanding the nuances of this infamous incident.

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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

Imagine. Imagine having the continuous feeling of needing to act a certain way because that is what the government wants. Imagine having to worship in an underground church because of belonging to the "wrong" religion. Imagine being blind and not being able to learn because the government cannot accept a disability. Lastly, imagine being killed because of simply disagreeing. This is everyday life in China for many people because of what the Communist Chinese government has caused for decades. Human Rights Abuse in China has caused millions of deaths and permanent injuries. In 1979, the One Child Policy was created and ever since then the abuse has escalated into being a normal part of lives. On June 4 1989, the government took the abuse to a whole other level. This fateful day was called the Tiananmen Square crackdown. This was the day of millions of deaths. China's government truly takes human rights violations to an extreme and has caused fear among their people. The government has previously claimed

Chiu to “admit you are guilty” (351), a fake crime, the officers wants to be correct to support their god complexity’ to demonstrate the power and control the nation has given them. In the admitting the crime Mr. Chiu would succumbed to the powers of the corrupted police and ideology. The police is trying to prove their authority by disrupting and twisting justice. The regimen that once was seen to be powerful was now just corrupt individuals and systems in the eyes of the party member; Mr. Chiu. The Tiananmen Square massacre was in essence the doubt of the people on the party and fear of corruption that lead student to protest in Beijing, China in 1989; the protest was not taken lightly by the government, who send military personnel to get rid of the protesting students (Szczepanski). This opened the eyes of the author to understand the corruption and repression that the government had, especially the military personnel’s little remorse after the killings of Protestants and common

are shown the streets of China, which are crowded with the homeless and the poor.

The “Tank Man” picture was taken on June 5, 1989 in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, but the “Tank Man” still remains unidentified. China’s government began to violently cracking down on protestors in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. When the tanks started driving down the street, a man in a white shirt and black jeans decided to step in front of an approaching line of military tanks. The nonviolent, calm protestor, walked in front of the tanks to halt them to a stop. The tanks tried to go around the man, but the man kept moving positions to stay in front of the tanks until he was escorted away from the tanks.

In recent years, the issue of peaceful and violent protests has arisen in the United States of America, and from these protests, a question has arisen: how do these peaceful protest affect our free society? The answer to this controversial question lies in the meaning of peaceful protest and application of this definition. Civil disobedience, or a peaceful protest, is the orderly and nonviolent purposeful violation of laws in order to change a law or governing system. This practice has been used to change the opinion of the citizens or the government. The repeated use of civil disobedience has led to our society’s improvement as a whole and has impacted the USA positively; these impacts are seen in the acts of the 1968 Olympic Medalists, Tommie

From my perspective, the Tiananmen massacre of 1989 was not justified. The students and protestors protested because they had a strong agreement of opposition about their current Chinese government system that needed to be addressed. They wanted democracy for more individual rights and freedom. Even though illegal organizations were violating laws such as forcibly occupying the Tiananmen Square and vandalizing establishments, it does not justify the poor government attempt to control the riots with fully armed military soldiers. The government, Chinese Communist Party and the military was suppose to improve China’s economy and unity, and serve the citizens. Instead they ended up massacring civilians and fueling the already violent protest (rioters

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

The Shanghai (Xinjiang) Riots and Tiananmen Square Massacre were a direct result from government corruption. The Shanghai (Xinjiang) riots developed around 1994. It began with about 10,000 “incidents” with 730,000 participants, it grew to 74,000 “incidents” with 3.8 million participants. There have been many casualties or as referred to by the government “incidents” by these riots, in 2000, there were 5,500 and in 2003 there were 58,000. These riots are due to overworked textile workers striking, villagers trying to keep their land from being taking over, but mostly because of poor victims of the transition to a market economy. This was directly a cause of government corruption due to unequal distribution of wealth and police abuse. A rioter stated “people can see who corrupt the government is while they barely have enough to eat.” However, this problem originated before those riots occurred. 5 years before that happened; a more famous incident took place, the Tiananmen Square Massacre. July 4th, 1989, thousands of students gathered outside Tiananmen Square to protest for a more democratic government. Chinese government sent officials