Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sanitized version of events. Perhaps they are relieved to be no longer teetering on the brink of civil war. Perhaps they find a military occupation, 1,000 arrests and a revision of history a small price to pay for restoration of order. Perhaps, suggests a university professor in Shanghai, "the truth is too painful to accept...
...anyone else trying to rule China in the post-Tiananmen era is not more street protests. In the few days after the massacre, demonstrations and strikes did erupt in several key cities -- from Shenyang in Manchuria to central Wuhan to southern Guangzhou. Students and workers set up barricades in Shanghai, China's largest city and economic hub, and paralyzed the public transportation system. But the activism soon petered out. Protest rallies shrank from the ten thousands to the tens. On Shanghai campuses, student associations dissolved. With the crackdown officially under way, the vast majority of people -- even in the once...
...turmoil spread from Beijing to Shanghai to Guang-zhou to Xian to Chengdu, the shock waves reverberated throughout the Communist world. Publicly the Poles congratulated themselves on the contrast between their political accomplishments and the calamity unfolding in China. But privately many said they feared what they might yet have in common with the Chinese -- a system that has still to prove it can tolerate genuine democracy...
...make - long-term decisions. Besides, like the Bush Administration, they had trouble finding out what was going on; several were unable to discover whether their Chinese offices and factories were still open and working. The bloodshed and chaos were known to have stopped some operations. Work ceased at Shanghai factories owned partly by Massachusetts-based Foxboro, an electronics company, and aircraft-making McDonnell Douglas. Chemical Bank suspended its efforts to organize a syndicate of U.S. and Japanese banks that would share in a $120 million loan to Sinopec, China's national oil company...
...narrow hutungs, or alleys, that snake through the city. On Sunday the P.L.A. newspaper Liberation Daily proclaimed a great victory over a "counterrevolutionary insurrection." Still, reports of shooting and fighting in Beijing continued to pour in the following day. Additionally, citizens' blockades have begun to go up in Shanghai, China's largest city...