Word: marchese
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In early December, students of the University of Science and Technology in Hefei launched a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations that spread to major cities across China. Last week the same students found a quieter way to express their sentiments: at least 1,000 reportedly signed their names in souvenir...
Park's reputed killers were arrested, and President Chun Doo Hwan dismissed the director general of the national police force and the Minister of Home Affairs. Nonetheless, university students protesting Park's death held a memorial service and campus protest marches, and the opposition seized the new popular issue. Trying...
That spoof of Peking's reaction to weeks of seething unrest was not far off the mark. Last week in a front-page editorial, the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily denounced the students in the strongest possible terms, saying that their marches for university reform, elections and a free...
Then came the students. Their massive marches in December, protesting a selective-admissions policy contained in a university reform bill, were in many ways quintessentially French. But the anarchist and Marxist youths who emerged among the students were reminiscent of young Italian zealots who consider the Communists stodgy old fogies...
Peer pressure may also play a role in the marches, which have attracted thousands of students, says Li, who is a freelance writer for Shanghai Youth, a campus magazine. Although he won't say whether he is a Communist, Li questions the motives of the protesters. "There is a very...