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	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 Summary
		The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were in large measure sparked by the death of former Secretary General Hu Yaobang.
		Unlike the Tiananmen protests of 1987, which consisted mainly of students and intellectuals, the protests in 1989 commanded widespread support from the urban workers who were alarmed by growing inflation and corruption.
		The Tiananmen protests were frequently invoked to argue against trade liberalization with mainland China and by the United States' Blue Team as evidence that the PRC government was an aggressive threat to world peace and United States interests.
	www.bookrags.com /Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 (6811 words)

	Tiananmen Square Summary
		Tian'anmen Square (Simplified Chinese: 天安门广场; Traditional Chinese: 天安門廣場; pinyin: Tiān'ānmén Guǎngchǎng) is the large plaza near the center of Beijing, China, named after the Tiananmen (literally, Gate of Heavenly Peace) which sits to its north, separating it from the Forbidden City.
		Tiananmen Square has been the site of a number of political events such as the proclamation of the People's Republic of China by Mao Zedong in October 1, 1949 and for mass rallies during the Cultural Revolution.
		The protests of 1989 resulted in the killing of Chinese protestors in the streets to the west of the square and adjacent areas.
	www.bookrags.com /Tiananmen_Square (1810 words)

	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 were sparked by the death of former Secretary General Hu Yaobang.
		The protests grew larger after news of confrontation between students and police spread; the belief by students that the Chinese media was distorting the nature of their activities also led to increased support.
		The Tiananmen protests were frequently invoked to argue against trade liberalization with mainland China and by the blue team as evidence that the PRC government was an aggressive threat to world peace and United States interests.
	www.w3bdevil.com /ChinaIsGreat (6070 words)

	Tiananmen Square Demonstrations: A Perspective
		Protests in Tiananmen in the early 1900s led to the fall of the last Imperial Dynasty (Ching or Qing).
		When Chicago police fought protesters at the Democratic Party national convention in 1968, crowds chanted “the whole world is watching.” The young protesters believed television would shame the authorities by broadcasting their actions.
		If a spontaneous protest on the scale of Tiananmen ever did occur in Washington, DC, it would be dealt with no differently and probably much more swiftly.
	www.sinomania.com /CHINANEWS/tiananmen.htm (1080 words)

	Was There A Massacre In Tiananmen Square 1989?
		Popular perception is that the vast crowds of protesters in Tiananmen Square were mainly students, young, intelligent, and full of youthful optimism and idealism.
		The core group of organized protesters, it is true, were students and they came not just from the elite schools of Beijing but from all over China.
		The rest of May 1989 was a hopeless stand off between the government, which felt threatened and without options, and the core group of student protesters who wanted impossible concessions.
	www.sinomania.com /CHINANEWS/tiananmen_perspective.htm (1359 words)

	Li Peng - Famous Chinese People - Chinese
		Their protests, which grew despite government efforts to contain them, called for an end to Political corruptionofficial corruption and for defense of freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution of the People's Republic of China.
		Conservative PRC leaders were horrified that the Tiananmen protests could topple the government, at a time when, as they argued, political stability was so crucial for economic reforms and modernization.
		The economic success of the years unfolding after the Tiananmen Square protests have perhaps solidified Li's legacy and defended his notion that social stability would be required to ensure a successful transition to a market economy, and this premise is now accepted by the Communist Party.
	www.famouschinese.com /virtual/Li_Peng (1675 words)

	Why Tiananmen Square Will Be Remembered as the First Defining Moment of the Information Age
		The 1989 Tiananmen Square protesters made history when they forced the injustices of a repressive government into the global limelight.
		In a very real sense, Tiananmen Square was the electronic pen of the new Information Age and it was mightier than the repressive sword of a brutal government.
		Not because it was wielded by a "prestigious" world body or by a "powerful" global power, but rather, by a relatively small band of students, intellectuals and labor activists with the guts to peacefully confront their own government.
	yowbooks.com /html/kolbrin_tiananmen.html (1297 words)

	Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History : Documents
		The student demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in 1989 were not the first time in the 1980s that Chinese authorities were faced with organized demonstrations expressing dissatisfaction with their rule.
		By May 20, 1989, with no peaceful resolution of the crisis in sight, the Chinese government declared martial law in Beijing, hoping to intimidate the protesters to clear the square.
		On the day before the crackdown began, the Beijing city government tightened restrictions on the foreign media reporting on the Tiananmen Square demonstration, and the Chinese leadership was becoming increasingly frustrated with the persistence of the student demonstrators and their refusal to clear the square.
	www.gwu.edu /~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/documents/index.html (6170 words)

	FRONTLINE: the tank man: watch the full program online \| PBS
		On June 5, 1989, one day after the Chinese army's deadly crushing of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, a single, unarmed young man stood his ground before a column of tanks on the Avenue of Eternal Peace.
		Drawing on interviews with Chinese and Western eyewitnesses, Thomas recounts the amazing events of the spring of 1989, when a student protest that began in Tiananmen Square, the symbolic central space of the nation, spread throughout much of the rest of China.
		In the face of official silence about 1989 and the Tank Man, the program concludes with Thomas' quest to find out what became of the Tank Man and who he was.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman/view (741 words)

	tiananmen 1989 - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		What the struggle for Tiananmen in 1989 fully signifies for the future...very end in the struggle for Tiananmen in 1989, in the late evening of June...in 1921, the struggle for Tiananmen in 1989 symbolizes the beginning of...
		Beyond Tiananmen may not be the most...coverage of the Tiananmen Massacre of 1989 and its aftermath...
		He became premier (1988), declared martial law during the Tiananmen Square protests (May, 1989), and was instrumental in the dismissal and arrest (June, 1989) of Zhao Ziyang, the general secretary of the party.
	www.questia.com /search/tiananmen-1989 (1741 words)

	The Epoch Times \| Last High-Profile Tiananmen Massacre Prisoner to be Released
		TIANANMEN SQUARE, BEIJING: A girl wounded during the Tiananmen Square Massacre by PLA troops under the orders of the Chinese Communist Party,is carried out by a cart.
		BEIJING - A Chinese journalist jailed for throwing paint at a portrait of Mao Zedong during the 1989 Tiananmen protests is due to be freed on Wednesday, ahead of President Hu Jintao's visit to the United States, his mother and a rights activist said.
		Mao is still revered by many in China even though millions were purged or killed during the chaotic 1966-76 Cultural Revolution and about 30 million starved to death after he launched the Great Leap Forward campaign in 1958 and urged farmers to abandon their fields to make steel in backyard furnaces.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/6-2-22/38536.html (688 words)

	1989 - Webled.com
		[ October 25, 1989 USGS scientists said there was a 50-50 chance that an ]...
		[ May 19 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang meets the ]...
		[ May 20 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government ]...
	www.webled.com /1989.htm (313 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Tiananmen Square protests of 1989
		The suppression of the protest was immortalized in Western media by the famous video footage and photographs of a lone man in a white shirt standing in front of a column of tanks which were attempting to drive out of Tiananmen Square.
		He hinted at the 1989 protests by referring to the Bonus March Incident in the United States nearly 50 years earlier.
		In 2006, when PBS did an interview at Peking university where many students participated in 1989, four students were shown the picture of the Tank man, none of them was able to recognize who that person was, and what that event was about.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 (7924 words)

	AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society
		Tanks and troops moved in to clear the area and hundreds of the student demonstrators were reported to have been killed, although the unofficial records reached as high as the thousands.
		Beijing still officially recognizes the June 4th event as an attempt to overthrow the government, and since 1989, petitions have demanded an official investigation of the incident, the prosecution of Premier Li Peng, and the release of jailed dissidents from the protests.
		Amnesty News gives a description of the events in Tiananmen Square on June 4th, as well as a link to petitions in a campaign for human rights reform in China, and a note from the parent of a student killed in the massacre.
	www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=21640 (1352 words)

	Ramifications of the 1984 Tiananmen Square Incident (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The country's infamous June 4, 1989 clash of demonstrators and soldiers was a glimpse into internal strife that some say exist today.
		The demonstration of 1989 was started by students demanding freedom to vote for another party, freedom of the press, freedom to choose their own careers and an end to the corruption in the Chinese government.
		Ten years have past since the Tiananmen Square demonstrations, and the Chinese are asking themselves if the actions by the students propelled or hurt reform in China.
	home.earthlink.net /~romekyn/world/ramifications.html (1007 words)

	China releases Tiananmen relatives - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		China said it had released one woman who lost her husband and two who lost their sons in the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests after detaining them over "illegal activities sponsored by overseas forces".
		Retired professor Ding Zilin, a leading spokeswoman for the Tiananmen Mothers group, Zhang Xianling and Huang Jinping were "released by police after being admonished and showing repentance," according to the official Xinhua news agency.
		The Tiananmen Mothers group has called on the Chinese government to exonerate victims and reverse its verdict on the protests.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/04/03/1080941714228.html (453 words)

	Interesting Stuff » Tiananmen Massacre
		Seventeen years after their children were slain or disappeared, the tightly monitored Tiananmen Mothers group presumably grieved privately Sunday, while in Hong Kong 44,000 people, according to organizers, gathered for a candlelight vigil in Victoria Park to give grief a public voice in remembrance of the June 4, 1989, massacre
		Chinese police tore up a protester's poster and detained at least two people on Beijing's Tiananmen Square on Sunday as the country marked 17 years since local troops crushed a pro-democracy demonstration in the public space.
		We love that photo because for a very short moment in time, we were able to witness a nameless every man who had enough human bravery to stand up against the machinery of death and the power of a repressive government.
	www.weeklyecho.com /blog/index.php?itemid=63 (292 words)

	Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Unknown Rebel - This famous photo, taken by photographer Jeff Widener, depicts a lone protester whose actions halted a column of advancing tanks until he was pulled into the crowd.
		In 2006, when a journalist from the PBS show "Frontline" did an interview at Peking university where many students participated in 1989, four students were shown the picture of the Tank man, none of them was able to recognize who that person was, and what that event was about.
		Tiananmen Square was mentioned in the song "Hypnotize" off of the album "Hypnotize" by the experimental metal band "System of a Down" released on November 21st, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tiananmen_Square_protests_of_1989 (8279 words)

	Rebellion against the free market
		They’re protesting layoffs of tens of thousands of workers--and management’s cutoff of payments for heating bills and health insurance for workers who received severance packages of less than $500 for each year worked.
		But police attacked the Liaoyang protests on March 19, arresting Yao Fuxin, who is accused of leading the protests, along with several other workers.
		Since the army massacre that smashed the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, the government has ruthlessly suppressed dissent, including the Falun Gong religious group.
	www.socialistworker.org /2002-1/400/400_05_ChinaProtests.shtml (536 words)

	1989 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		May 19 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: Zhao Ziyang met the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.
		May 20 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The Chinese government declared martial law in Beijing.
		May 30 - Tiananmen Square protests of 1989: The 10 m (33 ft) high Goddess of Democracy statue is unveiled in Tiananmen Square by student demonstrators
	savage-comedy.com /_1989 (4141 words)

	Radio Australia - News - Tiananmen Square 16 years on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Amnesty International has called on the Chinese government to release all people imprisoned during the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests and arrest those responsible for the massacre.
		Hundreds, maybe thousands, of unarmed protesters were mowed down after the government ordered the army to storm the city to end six weeks of peaceful protests.
		A protester dressed as the comic book character Spiderman climbed to the top of a giant TV screen on a building in Hong Kong Friday, in a protest marking the anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown.
	www.abc.net.au /ra/news/stories/s1384331.htm (421 words)

	Tiananmen leader to get retrial - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A former student leader of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy protests, who has been on hunger strike in prison for months, may be granted a retrial, a leading rights group said.
		Zhang, one of 21 student leaders wanted for their roles in the 1989 protests, was sentenced to seven years in jail in September for "abuse of executive benefits", apparently related to his company, the Shanghai Ange Company.
		"It's especially appropriate, as the 15th anniversary of the June 4 massacre approaches, that a veteran of the protests should be offered the hope of justice," said HRIC president Liu Qing.
	www.theage.com.au - !http: //www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/22/1085176027329.html (254 words)

	Tiananmen Square Protests Video Clip, Free Videos Online – EncycloMedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		• In 1989 – 500,000 students and workers gathered to protest the hard-line policies and corrupt government practices of then Chinese ruler Deng Xiaoping.
		The police were ordered to keep a low-profile, although many argue that this was due to the fact that the Chinese government at the time was entertaining Mikhail Gorbachev.
		• The tail end of the protests included an iconic moment in the history of protests when one lone unnamed protestor stood alone in front of a row of on-coming army tanks.
	www.encyclomedia.com /video-tiananmen_square_protests.html (270 words)

	deseretnews.com \| China still wary of filmmakers
		In 1994, Zhang Yimou, director of "To Live," skipped the festival to protest the film's censorship in China, and Cannes left an empty chair for him at his news conference.
		The backdrop is the student-led pro-democracy protests in 1989, which ended in a military crackdown, including at Tiananmen Square, with hundreds or thousands of people killed.
		The Chinese government still maintains the protests were counterrevolutionary riots, and the issue is largely taboo.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635208702,00.html (769 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - Doc examines Tiananmen massacre
		It's one of the most enduring icons of the fight for freedom ever recorded: A lone Chinese man blocking the path of a column of tanks in Tiananmen Square on June 5, 1989.
		And there is no image from the events at Tiananmen Square that summer more enduring than the photos and video of that young man, a shopping bag in each hand, blocking a column of 18 tanks leaving the square the day after a massacre that reportedly killed hundreds of protesters.
		The Tank Man bounces back and forth between exploring the symbolism of the man's actions and looking at the larger picture of the events that led to soldiers opening fire on protesters in Beijing, killing a reported 2,600 unarmed civilians in the vicinity of Tiananmen Square alone.
	jam.canoe.ca /Television/2006/04/11/pf-1528945.html (575 words)

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