Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

most cases they are subjected by leaders or judges. They have the final say what may and may not be censored. An example of censorship is in Beijing where Chinese troops removed a statue called “Goddess of Democracy” in Tiananmen Square on June 4th 1989, and continue to censor information about the events on this day. Official reports say that 200 civilian and 20 government officials were killed however, unofficial reports say that thousands of civilian demonstrators and 50…

Mao Zedong's Great Proletariat Revolution, more commonly known as the Cultural Revolution, was one of the most bloody power struggles in history. After the Great Leap Forward, an attempt by Mao to rapidly modernize China, failed, Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leaders tried to push Mao into a figurehead role. To prevent this from happening, Mao and his allies, most notably his wife Jiang Qing and army commander Lin Biao, declared bourgeois bureaucrats had infiltrated the government. From 1966 to…

right is was not shown a whole lot around the world in the beginning and is still not everywhere today. Back in 1989 a group of Chinese university students and other protestors settled in the Tiananmen Square in Beijing. They were protesting the right to fix their corrupt government and to switch to a democracy. In response to the protest the Chinese government ended the protest and killed up to 3,000 people as written in Document C. A government can become corrupt so easily and affect the…

were taxed heavily by the british on everyday items such as coffee, paper, lead, sugar, and tea to pay for the damages of the French and Indian war. Due to the heavy taxation on daily products the colonies united to face a common enemy, Britain. Protests such as the Boston Tea Party lead by the Sons of Liberty, who are rights activists, angered King George into closing the ports which further upset the colonies. The colonists were tired of Britain’s unfair taxes and finally decided to take a…

Within the twentieth century, various totalitarian regimes had taken control in countries across the globe. Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini gained power from their country’s political imbalance and financial struggles after WWI and through their citizen’s desperation and wounded nationalism. Germany, in particular, was entirely blamed for WWI and had to carry out the economic consequences by itself because of the Treaty of Versailles. Cuba and Russia’s fascist governments…

Korea’s good will. This policy was influenced from two levels. First, individual level was President Kim himself, and second, state level was support of the U.S. Clinton administration. President Kim was famous for his democracy movement and peaceful protests against the military dictatorship of South Korea. When he elected for a president, he emphasized on a direct conversation between South Korea and North Korea. Thus, he suggested a summit to North Korea on inauguration day (Institute for…

In 1989, as communism fell in the Soviet Union, protests wreaked havoc throughout China. In Beijing specifically, protests attended by 1.2 million people in Tiananmen Square were held to challenge the government control of the media, limiting freedom of speech, and violating human rights. One of the most famous images of the 20th century…

Introduction Hong Kong, currently a highly developed city which is also one of the most important financial center on the global stage, has been experienced a series of historical incidents which finally created a very distinctive, complicated yet dynamic and investigable background for it. Due to the colonial era under the administration of British and hand-over to China in 1997, Hong Kong people, or Hong Kongers, have been showing the changes of their identity through the different period…

1. Term: Communes/1958 Definition: A group of collective farms. Significance: The people had to give up all of their property so that everything could be owned and controlled by the commune. Everyone had set targets they had to meet and keep a certain level of production. 2. Term: Great Leap Forward/1958-1960 Definition: Mao’s attempt to modernize China’s economy by developing agriculture and industry. Significance: Families were divided into communes and they could no longer own their own…

Doubt and confidence are key sources of intellectual understanding and development. Doubt creates curiosity, which drives experts to understand more and research with greater depth, while confidence provides certainty of truth. But doubt also results in uncertainty and lack of confidence, which is disadvantageous in the production of knowledge. Is confidence even valuable in the production of knowledge? How confident can we be in knowledge? Does increased knowledge imply increased ignorance? Is…