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1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | Protests led by students, known in China as the June Fourth Incident, were held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 0 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | profiteers who took advantage of lax regulations and who often flaunted their wealth in front of those who were less well off. Popular discontent was brewing over unfair wealth distribution. Greed, not skill, appeared to be the most crucial factor in success. There was widespread public disillusionment concerning the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 1 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | of the People, but several students pressed forward. A few were allowed to cross the police line. Three of these students, Zhou Yongjun, Guo Haifeng, and Zhang Zhiyong, knelt on the steps of the Great Hall to present a petition and demanded to see Premier Li Peng. Standing beside them, a fourth student (Wu'erkaixi) ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 2 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | students understood that signs of internal turmoil during the Sino-Soviet summit would embarrass the nation and not just the government. On the morning of 13 May, Yan Mingfu, head of the Communist Party's United Front, called an emergency meeting, gathering prominent student leaders and intellectuals, including Liu Xi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 3 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | 0 divisions from five of the country's seven military regions. At least 14 of the PLA's 24 army corps contributed troops. Guangzhou's civil aviation authorities suspended civil airline travel to prepare for transporting military units.
The army's initial entry into the capital was blocked in the suburbs by throngs of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 4 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | 'an Avenue. By far, the largest number occurred in the two-mile stretch of road running from Muxidi to Xidan, where "65 PLA trucks and 47 APCs ... were totally destroyed, and 485 other military vehicles were damaged." Although troops advanced into Beijing from all directions, the majority of deaths during the night of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 5 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | including railway traffic was blocked. On 6 June, the municipal government tried to clear the rail blockade, but it was met with fierce resistance from the crowds. Several people were killed from being run over by a train. On 7 June, students from major Shanghai universities stormed various campus facilities to erect ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 6 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | by plainclothes policemen.
The 21 most-wanted student leaders' faces and descriptions were often broadcast on television. Photographs with biographies of the leaders followed in this order: Wang Dan,
Wuer Kaixi, Liu Gang, Chai Ling, Zhou Fengsuo, Zhai Weimin, Liang Qingdun, Wang Zhengyun, Zheng Xuguang, Ma Shaofang, Y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 7 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | . Some were reportedly beaten.
Some Western outlets withheld certain images from viewers; Graham Earnshaw, a Reuters correspondent at the time, stated that a "disgusting" photo depicting the burned body of a soldier hanging from a bus was not sent to subscribers.
== Reactions ==
The Chinese government's response was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,048 | 8 | 10 |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre | had also proposed restrictions on the transfer of military technology to the European Union if the latter lifted the ban. The United Kingdom also opposed the embargo lifting when it took charge of the European Union presidency in July 2005.
The European Parliament has consistently opposed the lifting of the arms embar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre | 2,035 | 9 | 10 |
Great Leap Forward | The Great Leap Forward was an industrialization campaign within China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). CCP Chairman Mao Zedong launched the campaign to transform the country from an agrarian society into an industrialized society through the formation of people's communes. The Great Leap Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward | 2,048 | 0 | 7 |
Great Leap Forward | to socialism that had been followed by the Soviet Union was not appropriate for China. He was critical of Khrushchev's reversal of Stalinist policies and he was also alarmed by the uprisings that had taken place in East Germany, Poland and Hungary, and the perception that the USSR was seeking "peaceful coexistence" wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward | 2,048 | 1 | 7 |
Great Leap Forward | lose individual identities, since families were from vastly different communities with different cultural views, political views, family structures, and financial backgrounds, which created conflict regarding the means and modes of production. Some wealthier families who refused to join a people's commune might be lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward | 2,048 | 2 | 7 |
Great Leap Forward | Campaign.
Although actual harvests were reduced, local officials, under tremendous pressure to report record harvests to central authorities in response to the innovations, competed with each other to announce increasingly exaggerated results. These results were used as the basis for determining the amount of grain wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward | 2,048 | 3 | 7 |
Great Leap Forward | -by-county review of deaths in five provinces and performing extrapolation. Chen was part of a large investigation group led by the Institute for Economic Structural Reform which "visited every province and examined internal Party documents and records".
Becker, Rummel, Dikötter, and Yang each compare several earlier e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward | 2,048 | 4 | 7 |
Great Leap Forward | ism' together with a succession of natural calamities and the perfidious scrapping of contracts by the Soviet Government that our economy encountered serious difficulties between 1959 and 1961, which caused serious losses to our country and people."
=== Deaths by violence ===
Not all deaths during the Great Leap were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward | 2,048 | 5 | 7 |
Great Leap Forward | security chief Kang Sheng declaring of the letter: "I make bold to suggest that this cannot be handled with lenience."
In particular, at the Seven Thousand Cadres Conference in January–February 1962, Mao made a self-criticism and re-affirmed his commitment to democratic centralism. In the years that followed, Mao most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward | 1,072 | 6 | 7 |
Great Chinese Famine | The Great Chinese Famine (Chinese: 三年大饥荒; lit. 'three years of great famine') was a famine that occurred between 1959 and 1961 in the People's Republic of China (PRC). Some scholars have also included the years 1958 or 1962. It is widely regarded as the deadliest famine and one of the greatest man-made disasters in hum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine | 2,048 | 0 | 4 |
Great Chinese Famine | Local governments had just as much, if not more, influence on the famine as did higher rings of government. As the Great Leap Forward progressed, many provincial leaders began aligning themselves with Mao and higher Party leaders. Local leaders were forced to choose between doing what was best for their community and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine | 2,048 | 1 | 4 |
Great Chinese Famine | corpses. No one paid attention to them. People said that dogs were eating the bodies. Not true, I said. The dogs had long ago been eaten by the people.
=== Cannibalism ===
There are widespread oral reports, though little official documentation, of human cannibalism being practiced in various forms as a result of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine | 2,048 | 2 | 4 |
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