Tiananmen Square Protest Of 1989

The setting is in Muji, China during the Cultural Revolution in the 1960s. The leader of the communist party at the time is Chairman Mao and ruled based on a Marxist model by the story mentioning the concrete statue of him in the center of the square. The author states that “the Cultural Revolution was over already, and recently the Party has been propagating the idea that all citizens were

The Tiananmen Square Event in 1989 reflects the cult’s will over the people, where the military gunned down protestors. These events are results of cults and leader’s rule over their followers, but none is as significant as the tragedy in

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

•Duke, Michael S. Iron House: A Memoir of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Massacre. Layton: Gibbs.Smith, 1990•Liu, Melinda, et al. Beijing Sprin

Just as one small spark can start a blazing wildfire, one simple bomb on the fateful day at Haymarket Square triggered an explosion in the labor movement that no one had expected. With tension growing exponentially in the workers’ rights area of United States reform in the 1800s, scattered riots inevitably broke out among restless workers, but no previous outbreak could compare to the impact of the notorious Haymarket Riot. The explosion in the crowd of workers battling police officers on that spring day in Chicago mirrored the explosion that occurred for laborers across the nation, with a combination of both beneficial and harmful outcomes to last the rest of history.

Protests riots in the United States has proven to an issue for both the country’s financial strength and the unity of the nation. With the presence of social injustices, combined with the increased impact of social media propaganda, protests riots are beginning to reach an all time high. Protest riots destroy individual communities and businesses, jeopardizes the safety of others and taints the protest’s cause by resorting to civil disobedience. Action must be done in order to prevent these random acts of violence from continuing after every social hot topic. The goal is not to prevent citizens from protesting; in fact, this should be encouraged. The goal is to change the way the protests are handled from both the citizens and authority perspectives, in order to prevent these protests from escalating into something dangerous.

The apex of Wong’s book is how she displays the emotional overtones in reciting her account of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. She tells of being holed up in a hotel across the street from the square and actually being able to see the violence between the protesting students and citizens, and the soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. When she describes bodies falling from gunshot wounds, people being squashed by tanks, and the bullets ricocheting off their hotel walls, it produces multiple senses of horror, sorrow, and absolute terror. She further hammers this point across by displaying two images taken from the scene (245). The first is of a PLA platoon leader who was beaten, set afire, disemboweled, and to add further insult, positioned so that he would serve as an example of what the proletariats were capable of. The second, was of PLA soldiers examining the destruction of Tiananmen Square after they seized the square. Smoke and debris from the protestors are widely prevalent, and the image was even used in a propaganda brochure for the government.

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.

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

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.

Tiananmen Square: As hope began to creep into the minds of young New Wave artists, they began to push the boundaries past what cultural officials could accept. Many officials expressed the opinion that young artists’ exhibitions were “incomprehensible, a confused hodgepodge that has everything in it but works of real artistic value. It reflects ideological emptiness[...] primarily sexual liberation, lust that will drive people into promiscuity. Disgusting, naked filth!” (Sullivan 276).

With thousands left wounded, a seemingly countless number of citizens reported dead, and a country left with a reputation in jeopardy. All of these were the consequences of a shocking and devastating event which happened on the 4th of June 1989, the Tiananmen Square massacre. Overtime this has been viewed as a major turning point in Chinese history. It catalyzed movements for generations across the world.

If people take a close look at this image, we will notice that the author points out so many social and political issues in only one sequence. In the bottom left, a group of young people was holding banners and shouting slogans. On the other side, the police were swing the bats and riding horses to try to break the demonstration by force. This scene exactly pictures the 1.29 Tongji Students Murder Case (同济一.二九血案）: at the end of 1947, the Chinese Civil War were having a significant change. Kuomintang was losing their power, but in order to get out of trouble, they started to suppress people from education, economy, and military. Especially for radical student groups, Kuomintang started to destroy student organizations and expel students from school for no reasons. To against such peremptory’s demands, students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Fudan University, and Tongji University came together and hold this demonstration. However, Kuomintang forcibly stopped it. The mounted policy swing their knives towards the students. Many students got hurt by knives, a lot of them were trampled under horses’ feet, and some were arrested. In an era that is lack of democracy and freedom, 1.29 Tongji Students Murder Case was

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

The movie, The Square documents the start of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011, showing first hand accounts of the rise and fall of two regimes. During the initial protest, different parts of Egypt experienced the revolution in many different ways. Though it is accurate, The Square only portrays a small part of what was taking place, albeit the more violent part. There are more aspects to a revolution than just what takes place in the streets. Analyses in response to the film have provided individual perspectives of how the revolution affected the nation of Egypt.