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...Zhou and three other pro-democracy Chinese scholars staged a brief hunger strike on June 3, 1989 as part of a student protest in Tiananmen Square...
That night, Zhou and three other dissidents negotiated with the Chinese military to permit the nonviolent release of the surviving protesters...
...government crackdown on dissidents after the massacre ensnared Zhou. He served 10 months in a Chinese prison...
...Zhou] was a force of moderation for thestudent movement in 1989," said research associateRoss Terrill, a journalist and author who wasexpelled from China in September. The communistgovernment opposed Terrill's support of Chinesestudent dissident Shen Tong...
...Zhou helped to avoid worse violence...[bycreating] a bridge between the police and radicalstudents," Terrill said...