Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

Protests are a method of communicating dissatisfaction towards governmental policies and actions. There are many different types of protest; however, the two predominant protests are, non-violent and violent. Non-Violent protests usually consist of strikes, posters, rallies, and abstaining from various procedures. Violent protests consist of riots, murders, vandalism, and damage to buildings. One example of a non-violent protest is the Rowlatt Satyagraha. The Rowlatt Satyagraha of 1919 protest…

the few ways to get points across to people in power is to protest. One type of protest is nonviolent. Nonviolent protests include a gathering of people chanting and holding signs about what they want. These protests are often very noisy. Sometimes, people will block areas like roads or plazas to get attention. Other times, people will do something subtle, but noticeable, to get their way. People should not always have a nonviolent protest because others deserve respect, it can lead to violence,…

The book “China in Our Time” talks about many different things that happened to China in the twentieth century. The major ones are events before communism, Mao Zedong’s era, Deng Xiaoping’s era, and the Tiananmen Square Massacre. These events and people changed China dramatically. At the beginning of the book, it jumps around the twentieth century, about some leaders of China, and a little of what Ross Terrill, the author of the book did in China. The book talks a little bit about the Vietnam…

a knife. These articles are about Protest some of them are violent and some are non-violent and they all happened years ago. Protest are a way of getting your side of the story in the public eye. Some protest can be very bad and some can be peaceful. One example of a protest that went violent is the Tiananmen Square protest.In the article of Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989 is talking about Beijing having a leader die and a lot of people having a peaceful protest until the military got involved…

views still do not have the privilege of expressing their views. This is evident when foreign journalists were barred from the 20th anniversary of Tiananmen Square and news sites and Twitter were blocked. The government has also tried to remove anything that resembles the fight for democracy by excluding exhibits mentioning the Tiananmen Square protests. This exclusion is also an attempt not to glorify and encourage those who stood up and called for citizens’ participation in the running of 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…

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 as students, which results in lower perceived credibility…

June 4, 1989 is a day remembered in numerous parts around the world as a dark and somber tragedy that disregarded the most basic values of freedom and democracy. Yet this event is often viewed in the narrow lens as a failure of an attempt to democratize. Through this lens, the historical contexts and following consequences are severely oversimplified, which results in an inadequate and biased perspective of the event itself. The China today is still shaped and molded by the memories of the…

on June 4, 1989 in Tiananmen Square vary so greatly that it makes it nearly impossible to know what actually happened. It is clear that the writers all had different perceptions of the events. I know my perceptions would have influenced the way I saw the events, as well. In turn, it would have affected the way I wrote about the events that took place. One of the things that would color my perspective and affect the way I would write about the events that happened in Tiananmen Square is where I…

on April 15th, 1989, and the CCP held a grand funeral for him that was televised publically. Students began to gather in Tiananmen Square initially to mourn for him and to request official reversal of Hu’s legacy where he was forced to admit his mistakes; but discussions and requests soon became revolved around general political questions such as democratic reforms and transparency. From mid April up to June 4th, the situation escalated through a series of key events. The protests quickly became…