Word: shanghaiing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before. It was the largest demonstration in modern Chinese history. People poured out of factories and hospitals, the Foreign Ministry and kindergartens. And not just in Beijing. By midweek the ferment had spread to at least a dozen other cities, with another hunger strike taking place in Shanghai. In some provincial cities, plans for a general strike were reported...
...marchers included 200 journalists employed by 40 state-controlled publications. Their demands: more press freedom and the reinstatement of Qin Benli, who was fired three weeks ago as editor of China's most outspokenly liberal journal, the weekly World Economic Herald in Shanghai. The journalists acknowledged the students' complaint that the official press had distorted the goals of their movement. "We can't solve our problems if we can't even write about them," said Chen Zongshun, a correspondent of the Workers' Daily...
...reprinted all over China. "This is a planned conspiracy that . . . aims at negating the leadership of the party and the socialist system," said the editorial. It called the students' independent unions illegal and said that new demonstrations would be put down. As a first step in the expected crackdown, Shanghai party officials restructured China's most outspokenly liberal newspaper, the weekly World Economic Herald, and fired its editor, Qin Benli...
...demonstrations had been growing in intensity through the week, spreading quickly from Beijing to at least six other cities, including Nanjing, Shanghai and Tianjin. Always the rallying cry was for political reform. "The Chinese government proclaims that democracy is here, but China still has dictatorship," said a demonstrator dressed in jeans and running shoes...
...share. Analysts estimated that the company's Pacific routes and real estate holdings, including $500 million worth of property in Japan, have a value of $2 billion by themselves. Beyond that, Northwest owns more than 230 airliners and has a far-flung route system that extends from Shanghai to Stockholm...