Word: students
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...peaceful character of the sit-in was a tribute to the political skills of the student leaders. When three youths defaced a huge portrait of Mao in the square with blotches of red and black paint, students handed the vandals over to the People's Armed Police for punishment and replaced the portrait. The three best-known leaders of the protest, who proved to be almost as elusive as their political elders meeting in the western hills, are Guo Haifeng, 23, a graduate student in international politics at Peking University; Wang Dan, 20, a history major at Peking University...
Fewer than 10,000 students remained in the square at week's end. Many of the original demonstrators had returned to campus, to be only partly replaced by students from outside the capital. With the protest fizzling, student leaders indicated that they would pull out by this Tuesday -- but vowed to stage a march through Beijing of 1 million people as a parting gesture...
...soaring inflation (30% annually) and unemployment. Meanwhile, some party officials began to talk of the unthinkable: political reform that would eradicate China's endemic corruption and loosen party strictures on freedom of speech and the press. Those nascent views were given their fullest expression in the slogans of the student protesters in Tiananmen Square. Some demonstrators even suggested that China should have a multiparty system...
...discredited ideology, Deng diminished the party's claim to legitimacy. He left the party all the more vulnerable to the flood of discontent that has so stunned the world in recent days. An improvement in living standards is not enough to meet the needs of the people. As a student banner in Tiananmen Square put it, WE LOVE RICE, BUT WE LOVE DEMOCRACY MORE...
...commodities in China, and wild rumors abounded. There were even reports that Deng was fleeing into retirement in the U.S. Protesters in Shanghai, Xian and Lanzhou staged memorial services for Beijing hunger strikers, although none had died. "People are learning about major government changes and about the biggest student movement in China's history from Popsicle sellers and newspaper dealers," said Zhang Weiguo, a reporter on Shanghai's World Economic Herald. "This is not a way to inform the people...