Word: greate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chinese saying goes, "It takes more than one cold day for the river to freeze three feet deep." Among other achievements, four decades of communist rule succeeded to a great extent in suppressing the people's initiative and suffocating their independent minds. People felt that they were being maneuvered and betrayed, used and discarded. It was not only the disillusion resulting from economic failures that caused popular frustration, but also the constant spiritual abuse, which reached the most outrageous degree during the notorious Cultural Revolution...
...great philosopher Lao Tze said two milennia ago, "The people do not fear death; to what purpose is it to try to frighten them with death?" Even those Chinese who would prefer to be apolitical were touched by the hunger strikers. One million people gathered for days and nights in front of the Forbidden City, defying and challenging the reluctant, if not entirely untouchable, authority...
PULLING off their long-worn masks imposed by threat from without and self-protection from within, the people are now able to identify with their fellow countrymen. A great unifying force erupted from this sudden identification. I am not alone in thinking what I am thinking, hoping what I am hoping. China is not hopeless. The hope is no other than the people themselves...
...mixed in with The Journal of Sex Research and Havelock Ellis' class texts on sexuality, are other books. Bound volumes of Playboy sit quietly next to The Groupsex Tapes and Great Bordellos of the World: An Illustrated History. Others have titles like Meat: How Men Look, Act, Walk, Talk, Dress, Undress, Taste and Smell...
...first act of China's great political drama of 1989 was played out with the panoply and sweep of a revolutionary grand opera. While much of the world watched, for a time, via satellite TV transmission, hundreds of thousands of students and sympathizers filled Beijing's Tiananmen Square, demanding greater democratization and an end to nepotism and corruption. On Saturday, May 20, with the government and the Chinese capital paralyzed, the curtain rang down ominously on Act I: Premier Li Peng, a principal target of the demonstrators' wrath, and President Yang Shangkun imposed martial law; troops from the People...