Hu Yaobang

students pushing them to desire a people’s government. The students started demonstrating, and soon the movement spread to many cities, striking fear within the Communist party. The party suppressed this movement by declaring it bourgeois liberalism. Hu Yaobang, a liberal member of the party who encouraged reform, was forced to resign, and his death sparked protests on Tiananmen Square. This sparked more protests around China, but the government took no action at that time. Later, martial law…

The Cold War which started in 1946 to 1991 was a global military, political, economic, ideological struggle between the U.S. and Britain, and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). The Cold War was not only a struggle between two nations, but what the nations represented or stood for: Democracy and Communism. This led to a series of wars, most memorably the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the U.S.S.R. Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe was defeated by the joint efforts of then allies the…

Even though the state of China resembles more like a post-socialist state, leaders of the state were heavily inclined towards a radical perspective since Mao Zedong was a founder member of the Chinese Communist Party. One of his main policies was the Great Leap Forward, which aimed to transform their agricultural industry into an advanced socialist economy through collectivization of different industries. Unfortunately, it did not work as expected since its implementation just shrank the…

The Cold War which started in 1946 to 1991 was a global military, political, economic, ideological struggle between the U.S. and Britain, and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). The Cold War was not only a struggle between two nations, but what the nations represented or stood for: Democracy and Communism. This led to a series of wars, most memorably the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the fall of the U.S.S.R. In 1945, Adolf Hitler's Nazi empire in Europe was defeated by the joint efforts of then…

In June of 1989, massive groups of university students gathered in Tiananmen Square to mourn the death of Hu Yaobang. He was powerful political leader that inspired his followers. The people in the square began demanding justice, freedom of speech, and more public industrial control. The ideas against the Chinese government exploded into violent protests very…

Deng Xiaoping had two choices either to give the people what they expected or not. Although egalitarianism was much weakened compared to Mao’s era, the very central of the party of still be exclusive and egalitarianism still exist. The death of Hu Yaobang triggered the entire incident. People were unhappy at how the politics work inside the party and feel distant from it. Instead of granting the people what they ask for, Deng decided to take a firm action toward the protesters. By declaring…

During the five thousand years history of China, they were many different revolutions appear, most of them had shown what should be improved or even needed to change to maintain a better quality of the nation life in different eras. The May Fourth Movement, the Cultural Revolution and the June Fourth Movement are famous and familiar revolutions in contemporary Chinese history. The leader of China initiated some of the revolutions, because he knew there were inadequate policies to get a better…

After bridging the central leader group with the potential targets of mobilisation, the activists move into the stage of amplification, i.e. the idealisation and embellishment of existing values or beliefs, especially as refutation of the counter-framing. As the instant response to the student demonstration in 1989, the People’s Daily, the mouthpiece of the Party, labelled the movement as upheaval, counterrevolutionary, and a violation of the constitution. Meanwhile, due to the activists’ status…