{"id":27438,"date":"2012-05-17T11:17:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=27438 "},"modified":"2012-05-17T11:17:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-17T11:17:00","slug":"27438-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=27438","title":{"rendered":"The Memory of Tiananmen, 1989 -Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>April 17<\/div><div><\/div><div><div>Tens of thousands of university students begin gathering spontaneously  in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, the nation&#8217;s symbolic central space. They  come to mourn the death of Hu Yoabang, former General Secretary of the  Communist Party. Hu had been a symbol to them of anti-corruption and  political reform. In his name, the students call for press freedom and  other reforms.<\/div><\/div><div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>April 18 &#8211; 21&nbsp; <div>Unrest Spreads<\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><div><p>Demonstrations escalate in Beijing and spread to other cities and  universities. Workers and officials join in with complaints about  inflation, salaries and housing. Party leaders fear the demonstrations  might lead to chaos and rebellion. One group, lead by Premier Li Peng,  second-ranking in the Party hierarchy, suspects &#8220;black hands&#8221; of  &#8220;bourgeois liberal elements&#8221; are working behind the scenes to undermine  the government. A minority faction, led by Party General Secretary Zhao  Ziyang, believes that &#8220;the student mainstream is good&#8221; and that their  patriotism should be affirmed, &#8220;although any inappropriate methods of  action should be pointed out to them.&#8221; <\/p><div>&nbsp;<\/div>  <p>Li argues that the protests should be &#8220;nipped in the bud;&#8221; however,   Zhao convinces them to wait, stating, &#8220;Our main task right now is to be  sure the memorial service for Comrade Yaobang goes off smoothly.&#8221; <\/p><\/div>&nbsp;<\/div><div>April 22<\/div><\/div><div><div>More than 100,000 university students assemble outside the Great Hall of  the People, where Hu&#8217;s memorial service is being held. Three students  carry a petition of demands up the steps of the Great Hall and insist on  meeting Li Peng; he does not respond. Over the next days, the students  boycott classes and organize into unofficial student unions &#8212; an  illegal act in China.<\/div><\/div><div>&nbsp;<\/div><div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/tankman\/cron\/\">Read the complete timeline from PBS Frontline. <\/a><\/div>&nbsp;<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;div&gt;The spring of 1989 saw the largest pro-democracy demonstration in the  history of China&#39;s communist regime. The following timeline tracks how  the protests began in April among university students in Beijing, spread  across the nation, and ended on June 4 with a final deadly assault by  an estimated force of 300,000 soldiers from People&#39;s Liberation Army  (PLA). Throughout these weeks, China&#39;s top leaders were deeply divided  over how to handle the unrest, with one faction advocating peaceful  negotiation and another demanding a crackdown. Excerpts from their  statements, drawn from &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/pages\/frontline\/tankman\/cron\/papers.html&quot;&gt;The Tiananmen Papers&lt;\/a&gt;,&lt;\/em&gt; reveal these internal divisions.&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ChinaHumanRights","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}