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Pro-Democracy Movements in Post-Mao China

1998
‘Down with bureaucratism, return democracy to us’; ‘Long live democracy, down with autocracy’; ‘Give us freedom or let us die’; these were the catchwords in the pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square of 1989. The spontaneous demonstrations that broke out in Beijing and other cities were unprecedented and unanticipated in the history of the People’s
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Economic power of the politically powerless in the 2019 Hong Kong pro-democracy movement

Critical Asian Studies, 2020
This commentary seeks to stimulate discussion about grassroots resistance that has taken on conglomerates in the faceless and leaderless 2019 pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong.
Debby Sze Wan Chan, Ngai Pun
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Pakistani Pro-Democracy Movement: From the 1960s to the 2000s

2019
In Pakistan from the 1960s to the 2000s, with a focus on the latter. The dissertation is composed of three different papers. The first paper is an analysis of the changing civil society in Pakistan. I argue that in order to understand why the two movements were so different, we need to look at not just a snap shot of the civil society, but its ...
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An archive of the 1989 Chinese Pro-Democracy Movement

1991
A collection of photocopies of leaflets relating to the Spring 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement in China has been assembled in Oriental and India Office Collections. Most of the original leaflets were collected in Peking by Robin Munro, who was working for Amnesty International at the time and is now a member of Asia Watch, the New York based human rights ...
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Media and Large-scale Demonstrations: The Pro-democracy Movement in Post-handover Hong Kong

Asian Journal of Communication, 2007
This article reviews the dynamic relationship between the media and the large-scale pro-democracy demonstrations in post-handover Hong Kong. It analyzes how the media have contributed to citizen participation, its roles in constructing the movement's self-understanding, and the impacts of the demonstrations on media discourses.
Joseph M. Chan, Francis L. F. Lee
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Television and foreign policy us response to the Beijing and Kwangju pro‐democracy movements

Asian Journal of Communication, 1992
This study examines US network television coverage of the 1980 Kwangju and 1989 Beijing‐Tiananmen Square incidents in relation to American policy towards those East Asian nations and the increasingly global impact of television on foreign policy. Both episodes involved pro‐democracy movements, imposition of military force, violence, and implications ...
James F. Larson, Jiande Chen
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State Legitimacy and Dynamics of the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement in Beijing

2010
On the morning of April 22, 1989, 7 days after the breakout of the 1989 Pro-Democracy Student Movement in Beijing, a state funeral was held for Hu Yaobang inside the Great Hall of the People, west of Tiananmen Square. The night before, around 50,000 students went into the Square in order to be part of that funeral.
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The 1989 Pro-Democracy Movement

2022
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Making a Difference: U.S. Press Coverage of the Kwangju and Tiananmen Pro-Democracy Movements

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, 2000
This study examined New York Times and Washington Post news coverage and U.S. government responses and foreign policy decisions concerning two similar East Asian political movements in the 1980s—the Kwangju movement in South Korea and the Tiananmen movement in China. The study was grounded in the interdependent relationship between the U.S.
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The Pro-democracy Movement in Hong Kong and the September 2004 Legislative Council Elections

2020
The pro-democracy movement was in a difficult state in the years before the massive protest rally on July 1, 2003. There was considerable frustration with the lack of progress as no one expected any breakthrough before 2007. Even the political parties in the pro-democracy camp did not believe that democratization was an issue with much political appeal.
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