![]() He was, however, not present there when Chinese army opened fire on protesters. Zhang was then on the square when protesters put forth seven demands, including holding democratic elections, end to state censorship, among others. Protesters, particularly pro-democratic, occupied the Tiananmen Square for months. The largest demonstration was held in capital Beijing led by students and workers. It should be recalled that hundreds of thousands of people protested across China. There were demonstrations, though small, against graft and for political reform ballooned into what would become the Tiananmen movement in 1989. It further writes that an apocryphal quote attributed to Deng captured the mood at this time, that ‘to get rich is glorious,’ but for many people, it was increasingly apparent that only a handful were becoming wealthy, while others were suffering due to growing corruption and the destruction of the social safety net. However, this intellectual awakening came as an increasing frustration with the pace of reform in China, CNN writes. This person Zhang writes in his new graphic novel “Tiananmen 1989: Our Shattered Hopes” that in those days their thirst to read, learn and explore the outside world was insatiable. According to CNN, he felt like he was taking part in a Chinese enlightenment then.Ĭhina was then undergoing leader Deng Xiaoping’s “Reform and Opening Up.” Lun Zhang, was a young man in Beijing in the 1980s. ![]()
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