Tiananmen Square Protests And Kwang-Ju Uprisings

Moreover, the students were the first members of the Red Guards. The Red Guards were revolutionists who fought against the 4 olds. The Red Guards were pupils from China’s colleges and universities who were denied the ability to succeed academically. Their "supreme commander" was Mao Zedong, and Maoists called the Red Guards "little revolutionary generals". The Red Guards went into citizens’ houses and threw out upper class and western style objects. The guards beat civilians up and shaved their heads. The Red Guards were not able to destroy museums and historic structures, because the buildings were blocked with

“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.

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

(Liu 16) Their "truth" campaign insists that only 300 people, many of whom were troops and police, were killed instead of students. However, the USA estimates somewhere between 700-2600. Chinese controlled television was selecting many edited video of angry protesters holding torches, weapons and guns beating on hapless soldiers, to describe to public that soldiers were the victims. These aired shows along with massive "fear" campaign and life-sized posters all make the government and the soldiers seemed like the victim of "revolutionary thugs"As Oceania does, Chinese authority used propaganda to isolate all truth in the report by eliminating foreigners and their journalist. In Oceania, the majority of the people never saw much of the outsiders. The only outsiders they see are the prisoner of wars or those that was hanged publicly. Chinese government saw foreign correspondents as a treat by exposing the truth. Foreign correspondent's cameras were smashed and seized. They received threats from Chinese authority that the army was been given the right to shoot on sight anyone carrying a camera. (Liu 16) They were detained on Tiananmen Square for 20 hours, and their telephone lines were cut off. The government took over China Central Television, CCTV, China's largest national TV network, during the times of protest. No CCTV camera crew or stuff was allowed to cover the stories and

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.

Against Government orders, the students held a mass demonstration in front of the Gates to the Forbidden Palace. The students voiced their disagreement with the terms of the Treaty of Versailles as well as the government’s inability to secure Chinese interests with the Allies. They demanded retribution towards individuals such as Cao Rulin, Lu Zongyu, and Zhang Zongxiang. The demonstration reached a peak when some students burned down Cao Rulin’s house. The Beiyang Government sent in the army and arrested many students, with one student dying in the melee.

This week in Democracy in troubled times, we spent most of our time watching a video called Tiananmen Square Declassified. This video was very unsettling. On June 4, 1989 there was a terrible riot in Chinas Tiananmen square. Students were huddling around soldiers, the Kernel in charge was trying to form an agreement for the students to leave, and if they did that their troops wouldn’t shoot.

At first these plans along with an extremely ingenious propaganda campaign stirred great optimism and productivity within the Chinese people, but as years went by the initial flare and excitement went out and few of these promises, reforms and goals had been reached. In some cases the promises were lies. The real actions of the Communist party showed quite a different picture than the lie of democracy that it was feeding the people. The new government never was a democratic one. As a matter of fact it was a dictatorship controlled by the China’s Communist Party (CCP). Throughout the years the communist government consistently and cruelly suppressed any attempts for the country’s democratization.

In the month of June, the government sends in its army to disperse the students out of the square and end the protests. The night of June 4th the Chinese army advanced on the square, Day’s earlier tanks, troops, and armed cars had surrounded the square and blocked off all roads. Protestors were shot down and beaten by Chinese soldiers. The scene was complete chaos in and around Tiananmen Square. Protestors were enraged with the soldiers who were shooting at anyone they deemed a threat. In the hours before the invasion of the square, make shift weaponry was being made for the protestors who were going to put up a fight to get what they wanted, democracy. Molotov cocktails, sticks, rocks, and pipes would battle throughout the night against bullets, teargas, and armor. Buses and cars were torched, Soldiers and civilians beaten, shot, or burned.

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

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

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

Initially, many of the Chinese troops were unarmed to diffuse the protesters, in which many of the protestors were Chinese students. But as the world witnesses, Chinese 27th Army armoured personnel carriers showed up and commenced fire on the crowd and then ran them over afterwards. The students were told that they had one-hour to vacate but it turned out to be a lie as the armoured personnel carriers began firing five minutes

Although the Cultural Revolution had a huge impact on all of the citizens of China, it seemed to affect the youth the most. The youth of China began to get involved after a speech by Lin Biao by 1965. It urged the students in schools and colleges to return to the basic principles of the CR. The Chinese youths quickly formed a group called the Red Guards early in the CR, which encouraged all the Chinese students to disapprove of whoever didn’t support Mao and his beliefs or anyone associated with Mao’s rival, Liu Shaoqi (Trueman). Schools and colleges were closed, and the students neglected their studies. While the Red Guards were very passionate about what they did, their enthusiasm nearly pushed China into social disorder. The economy was affected very badly, and almost driven to a near collapse (Busetto, Galduroz, and Satou). Food shortage was one of the main problems the economy caused. Also In some areas, the activities of the Red Guards got out of hand. They

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