Tiananmen Square

dissent 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…

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 Tiananmen Square in 1989, a protest led to violence. It started with a group of college students that learned about democracy. These students held a protest to try to change their government. In a short amount of time, the numbers grew, and the Chinese government…

Things had turned horribly awry when Deng ordered troops to fire into the crowd at Tiananmen Square. However, overzealous as his actions may have been, Deng’s intentions, at least, were well-placed. With prominent party figures showing an unprecedented willingness to compromise, and witness to the unrest (and in hindsight, collapse) of the…

he gave the protesters hope that serious change could be achieved. Hu’s death marked an important event as it filled many student protesters with even more determination to carry out his views. Even though Yaobang Hu was not alive to see the Tiananmen Square Massacre, it was his influence that led the protesters to keep fighting for more…

Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel, observed the actions of his fellow sufferers and in his publication, Night, stated, “We should show God that even here, in this enclosed hell, we were capable of singing his praises”(). As demonstrated in this passage by Wiesel that despite the injustices that prove to continuously leave the victims battered and broken, they are able to carry themselves upon the backs of one another to support their beliefs, and keep their dignity in tact. It is through instances…

which caused coastal cities an economic boom. As time went on, students and workers wanted to create a democracy movement, they met in Tiananmen Square and hung banners and when they would not leave, the army took action. Tanks and troops came in and opened fire, thousands were killed while others were imprisoned and tortured in what is known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre. The last time the world had seen something as horrific as this was the massacre at Amritsar in India on April 13th, 1919.…

extreme level. An example of a country where censorship reigns is China. In China, certain websites that their government sees as potentially dangerous, such as Wikipedia, are blocked during times of controversy, such as the anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. Also banned includes specific…

From famous folk singers like Cui Jian (whose music inspired the protesters at Tiananmen Square) to the rap group IN3 (a popular hip hop trio in China), the government has informed various musicians on what they can and cannot cover in their music. Topics deemed to be “politically sensitive” or “obscene and vulgar”are not permitted in music…

affected China; indeed, there is strong resistance to correcting human rights abuses. In the summer of 1989, Chinese students protested in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, facing off against government troops and tanks. From this event came an iconic image, of a man holding his shopping bags, facing off against a line of dozens of tanks and barring the way to the square and the protestors (Phelan). A lone man stood fearlessly in front of a tank, determined to stop their progress, and for a moment,…