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From there protests spread to other cities such as Shanghai, Tianjin, Nanjing, Kunming, Hangzhou, Suzhou, Guangzhou, and Beijing. [13] On December 19 after several days of protesting the Shanghai government called in the police and ordered them to use force to remove the student demonstrators, an act that angered students across the country. [14]
After the editorial was published, the students at Peking University in Beijing met during the night to discuss their plans for a march on April 27. [2] [3] Some of the authorities in the school tried to coax the students into calling it off; they gave hints that if the students did not protest, then the school officials would use their government connections to begin dialogues.
The May Fourth Movement was a Chinese cultural and anti-imperialist political movement which grew out of student protests in Beijing on May 4, 1919. Students gathered in front of Tiananmen to protest the Chinese government's weak response to the Treaty of Versailles decision to allow the Empire of Japan to retain territories in Shandong that ...
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A year ago, Li Houchen was on the streets of Shanghai, hollering “Freedom!” to protest China’s harsh “zero COVID” policy and growing authoritarianism. The protests were a brief flare of ...
In a video of the protest in Shanghai verified by The Associated Press, chants against Xi, ... About 2,000 students at Xi’s alma mater, Tsinghua University in Beijing, gathered to demand an ...
In his first monograph, Student Protests in the 20th Century: The View from Shanghai, Wasserstrom pays particular attention to symbols used by student protesters in Shanghai. Wasserstrom argues that students became particularly good at mimicking the practices of government officials, which made their causes seem legitimate. [5]
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