June 4th, 1989 is a day that changed China forever. Children growing up in China today will not be able to learn about every aspect of their country in schools, even the most important events. Even though the people in China are forbidden to even talk about it, it is still an important event in history not only in China, but the whole world. There were a lot of causes that shaped the massacre and the goals were very hard to be achieved, but the people of China never gave up. Censorship played a major role in this event. The Tiananmen Square incident of 1989 will never be forgotten. The death of Hu Yaobang, the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was a major cause of the June Fourth Incident. Hu Yaobang's death led many people, especially university students, to believe it was the end of social reforms. Yaobang's death led many students to call for confrontation between themselves and the government. The confrontation escalated to the April-May sit in the Tiananmen Square when their protests went unanswered. Another major cause of the protests...
Ah Xian born in Beijing in 1960 left china following the Tiananmen Square incident in 1989, also known as tank man incident, and moved to Sydney Australia. Having moved from his native country, Ah Xian wanted his work to represent that “cultural identity is permanent and no matter what other places and influences one
...tember 1971, Lin’s plane crashed supposedly due to insufficient amount of fuel or engine failure. Speculation that it was shot down by Chinese or Soviets. Mao was aging and his health was deteriorating. His wife gathered the “Gang of Four” and tried to control the media. Although the politicians were still enthusiastic, the Chinese had lost taste for the movement.
The 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre in China or the June Fourth Incident was one of the most famous student protests in the world’s history. The Massacre took place on June 4th 1989 – the last day of a series of pro-democracy demonstrations around Tiananmen Square beginning from April 14. The Tiananmen protest ended in tragic failure and bloodbath as the Chinese state decided to put down the protest with a martial law. At last, army troops and tanks were sent to take control of the city and were ordered to clear the square by firing at the crowd of protesters. The number of deaths has been a matter of controversy over the world until now, which ranges from several hundreds to thousands. In spite of the massiveness and the great influence of the protest, June Fourth was a great failure of civil disobedience because of its lack of organization and the dominant power of the Chinese dictatorial government.
made a lasting impact on not only Chinese society, but on the European and Western
After Mao Zedong’s failed Cultural Revolution, the country was in a state of disarray. Political isolation had caused the economy to falter, while citizens struggled everyday to adhere to communist ideals. Collectivization and municipalization ran the nation, meaning the government had total control over the country which left citizens without a chance of earning their own money or providing for themselves. In turn, the quality of life in China decreased and riots began to break out. Deng Xiaoping was the leader that succeeded Mao after his death in 1976, and his reforms helped turn around the country’s economic and social situation. Careful strategic moves made by Deng allowed other countries to invest in China’s economy and the government gave people more control over their land and education. He also reduced the power of the government, moving away from Communism and towards democracy. Deng Xiaoping had a positive influence on China because he opened China up to the global markets and increased the quality of life for millions of people.
Marie Lu, originally born Xiwei Lu, was born in Wuxi, China on July 11, 1984. Although Marie Lu experienced some type of dystopian society, it was her mother that lived through the Culture Revolution in China, which was actually a dystopia. At the time, Lu lived with her aunt in Beijing and they were a few blocks away from Tiananmen Square. Lu’s aunt would take her down to the Square to see what the protestors were doing. After a few months a protest there was a massacre and Marie Lu was there that day, however she does not recall much the experience, she does remember that there were tanks in the street. At five years old Marie Lu moved to the United States, in 1989.
In Daqing Yang’s “The Malleable and the Contested”, he gives a detailed explanation on when and how the Nanjing Massacre became such a controversial issue both in China and Japan today. He primarily focuses on the publications that brought awareness of the incident. He also signifies how politics can be a factor in these memories. Right after Japan’s defeat, Japanese atrocities were brought up to the Tokyo War Trials. During the early post-war period, the Nanjing Massacre was acknowledged in Japanese textbooks. It was not until the conservative Liberal Democratic Party’s establishment that the focus on the massacre was lightened in textbooks. On the other hand, the People’s Republic of China brought up the massacre by portraying the communist as the winner who fought against the Japanese in the war, and also focused more on how the United States was the key factor that caused the massacre instead of the Japanese. Yang points out in his article “As China continued its internal struggles to weed out domestic enemies, class conflict, rathe...
At first Zhu points out that this was merely a regional political issue for the locals to deal with but over time it grew to be a nation-wide phenomenon that eventually led to the Chinese Exclusion Act. This major impact was mostly to do with the timing of the actual riot. There were only two days that separated the riot and the national election which impacted the voting of society. The negative impacts of the riot gave way to the equal rights that had shortly before been won after the Civil War. This was a major step back for American society.
In 1966 a socio-political movement known as the Cultural Revolution swept across the People’s Republic of China and resulted in astounding changes whose effects are still being felt by the nation today. The Cultural Revolution changed nearly every aspect of traditional Chinese culture, politics, and psychology, and replaced it with Maoist ideology. To change the paradigm of a nation with deep historical roots, immense size, and a greatly distributed population, such as China, in a course of ten years is a feat most commendable. Responsible for this mind boggling change is, at the heart of it, a single man, Mao Zedong. Mao Zedong was born in 1893 to humble beginnings in the countryside, the world itself oblivious to the future of this man (Spence). Mao’s rebellious nature came from events in his youth such as the destruction of the Quing dynasty, the political wars he played with his father, and the exposure to literature, especially that of Marx and Lenin (Clements).
The May Fourth Movement did not directly result China to be a communist regime. Indeed, no studies or evidences support the claim of which the May Fourth Movement was inspired by the Soviets or led by the communist leaders. Despite, this movement had awaken Chinese consciousness and new nationalism; moreover, Chinese started to realize the fault of warlord systems, and traditional ways of thinking; being pushed out toward new ways of thinking. Besides, New Youth magazines, Chen Duxiu, and Hu Shi played important roles in the May Fourth Movement in view of how these encouraged Chinese to think outside of box, away from Confucianism, but encouraged to seek and adapt new ideas.
The events before, during, and after the massacre were both inspiring and tragic. In mid-May 1989, three weeks before the heartbreaking Tiananmen Square Massacre, nearly one million protesters gathered into the square. Most of the pro-democracy protesters were young students. This was the first of three main events that took place during the incident. The next major occurrence took place when the Chinese government sent tanks into Central Beijing. In early June, Chinese troops and security
There is no better way to learn about China's communist revolution than to live it through the eyes of an innocent child whose experiences were based on the author's first-hand experience. Readers learn how every aspect of an individual's life was changed, mostly for the worst during this time. You will also learn why and how Chairman Mao launched the revolution initially, to maintain the communist system he worked hard to create in the 1950's. As the story of Ling unfolded, I realized how it boiled down to people's struggle for existence and survival during Mao's reign, and how lucky we are to have freedom and justice in the United States; values no one should ever take for
The Chinese government is afraid that Liu’s writings would continue to cause protests and violence. Liu’s involvement in the human rights movement had disturbed the social order that the Chinese government put into place and the government would not accept this. This is why the Chinese government tried to silence Liu Xiaobo by banning the publication of his writing, barring him from public speaking and locking him behind bars. Locking him behind bars has caused some controversy within the Chinese leadership. Lui Xiaobo was used as an example to show the people what the government would not allow. There was controversy because he was the leader of the human movement in which many people were either a part of or agreed with its objectives.
...ng the time of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, mayhem was a part of everyday life. Mao Zedong encouraged rebellious actions from the Red Guards, and rewarded those who shone as leaders. He also targeted his political rivals by provoking the Red Guards to follow his ideas, and annihilate all remnants of china?s old culture. After the revolution ended, the Red guards received the disciplinary actions they deserved, and the tortured victims finally inadvertently received the vengeance they deserved.
Interests: China’s leaders desire to improve their nation’s economy while preserving political stability. They want to censor political discussions to prevent “westernization” of China,