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...China's sexual revolution has also brought unpleasant side effects. Although sex education is supposedly mandatory in Chinese middle schools, "many older teachers are too embarrassed, so they tear out the pages about sex from the textbooks," says Hu Peicheng, secretary-general of the China Sexology Association in Beijing. With little knowledge of birth control, an increasing number of unmarried women are getting pregnant in a culture in which single motherhood is still taboo. A survey by Shanghai medical researcher Yan Fengting found that 65% of urban women undergoing abortions in 2004 were single, compared with just...
...Hu Yaobang? Raised by peasant parents, Hu fought alongside Mao Zedong in the Chinese revolution, then rose to the country's No. 2 job as head of the Communist Party under Deng Xiaoping. More than any Chinese leader of his generation, he promoted political reform. In 1978, he signaled a new era by rehabilitating people unjustly purged during Mao's 1950s "anti-rightist" campaign...
...fall from power? In the winter of 1986-87, students protested in favor of democratic reforms. Deng blamed Hu, a relative liberal, for inspiring the protests; Hu lost his post as leader of the Communist Party, though he remained in the Politburo...
...Hu connected to the Tiananmen protests of 1989? His death on April 15, 1989, sparked the Tiananmen movement. Students brought floral wreaths to the Square?then stayed to demonstrate. On June 4, soldiers fired on the demonstrators...
...that the government has commemorated Hu, is it considering political reforms? Highly unlikely. President Hu Jintao has made it clear that political reform is off his agenda and seems to be playing to the Communist Youth League; Hu Yaobang headed the group in the 1950s and '60s, and Hu Jintao was its boss in the mid-1980s. Says an editor of a leading Chinese magazine: "Nobody will misunderstand and think Hu Jintao is promoting political reforms...