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Chinese democracy movement

Index Chinese democracy movement

The Chinese democracy movement, abbreviated as Minyun, refers to a series of loosely organized political movements in the People's Republic of China against the continued one-party rule by the Communist Party. [1]

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Anti-communism

Anti-communism is opposition to communism.

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Beijing Spring

The Beijing Spring refers to a brief period of political liberalization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) which occurred in 1978 and 1979.

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Chen Pokong

Chen Pokong (陳破空 aka Chen Jinsong 陳勁松), born December 20, 1963, is a well-known Chinese author and political commentator.

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Chin Wan

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a unitary one-party sovereign state in East Asia and the world's most populous country, with a population of around /1e9 round 3 billion.

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China Support Network

The China Support Network (CSN) is a U.S.-based organization promoting democracy for mainland China.

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Chinese Democracy

Chinese Democracy is the sixth studio album by American hard rock band Guns N' Roses.

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Chinese people in Germany

Chinese people in Germany form one of the smaller and less-studied groups of overseas Chinese in Europe, consisting mainly of Chinese expatriates living in Germany and German citizens of Chinese descent.

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Democracy in China

'Democracy' was a major concept introduced to China in the late nineteenth century.

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Democracy Wall

During the November 1978 to December 1979, thousands of people put up "big character posters" on a long brick wall of Xidan Street, Xicheng District of Beijing, to protest about the political and social issues of China.

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Democratic Party (Hong Kong)

The Democratic Party (DP) is a centre-left liberal political party in Hong Kong established in 1994.

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Emily Lau

Emily Lau Wai-hing, JP (born 21 January 1952) is a politician in Hong Kong who champions press freedom and human rights.

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Empowerment and Rights Institute

The Empowerment and Rights Institute (ERI) (仁之泉工作室 in Simplified Chinese) was a Chinese non-governmental organization (NGO).

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Fei Ye

Fei Ye (born 1962) is a Chinese poet who was also involved in the Chinese democracy movement.

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Feng Zhenghu

Feng Zhenghu (born 1 July 1954) is a Chinese economist and scholar based in Shanghai.

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Five Poisons

The Five Poisons (Chinese: 五毒; Pinyin: wǔ dú) can refer to an ancient Chinese set of poisonous or otherwise hazardous animals or five perceived threats the Communist Party of China sees for its rule over Mainland China.

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Foreign espionage in New Zealand

Foreign espionage in New Zealand, while likely not as extensive as in many larger countries, has nevertheless taken place.

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Free China

The term "Free China" may mean.

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Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein

Hans-Adam II (Johannes Adam Ferdinand Alois Josef Maria Marco d'Aviano Pius; born 14 February 1945) is the reigning Prince of Liechtenstein.

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History of Beijing

The city of Beijing has a long and rich history that dates back over 3,000 years.

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Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China

The Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements in China (abbr. 支聯會) is a pro-Chinese democratic organization that was established on 21 May 1989 in the then British colony of Hong Kong during the demonstration for the students protest in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

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Hu Jia (activist)

Hu Jia (born July 25, 1973, in Beijing) is a Chinese civil rights activist and noted critic of Communist Party of China.

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Huang Qi

Huang Qi (born 1963) is a Chinese webmaster and human rights activist.

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Index of China-related articles (0–L)

The following is a breakdown of the list of China-related topics.

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Jiang Zemin

Jiang Zemin (born 17 August 1926) is a retired Chinese politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of China from 1989 to 2002, as Chairman of the Central Military Commission from 1989 to 2004, and as President of the People's Republic of China from 1993 to 2003.

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Leung Kwok-hung

Leung Kwok-hung (born 27 March 1956), also known as "Long Hair", is a Hong Kong politician and social activist.

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Li Minqi

Minqi Li (born 1969) is a Chinese political economist, world-systems analyst, and historical social scientist, currently an associate professor of Economics at the University of Utah.

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Li Rui (politician)

Li Rui (born April 13, 1917) is a retired politician of the People's Republic of China from the ruling Communist Party and latterly a writer and vocal advocate of democratic reform in China.

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List of Chinese dissidents

This list consists of these activists who are known as Chinese dissidents.

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List of Cold War pilot defections

During the Cold War, a number of pilots from various nations (Eastern Bloc, Western Bloc, and non-aligned) defected with their aircraft to other countries.

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Ma Ying-jeou

Ma Ying-jeou (born 13 July 1950), also spelled as Ma Yingjiu, is a Hong Kong-born Taipei-based politician who served as the eighteenth President of the Republic of China from 2008 to 2016 as well as sixth under the 1947 Constitution.

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Microblogging in China

Weibo (微博) is the Chinese word for "microblog".

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Midnight Special Bookstore

The Midnight Special Bookstore was an independent bookstore in southern California.

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Politics of China

The politics of the People's Republic of China takes place in a framework of a socialist republic run by a single party, the Communist Party of China, headed by General Secretary.

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Popular democracy

Popular democracy is a notion of direct democracy based on referendums and other devices of empowerment and concretization of popular will.

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Pro-Beijing camp (Hong Kong)

Pro-Beijing camp, pro-establishment camp or pro-China camp refers to a political alignment in Hong Kong which generally supports the policies of the Beijing government towards Hong Kong.

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Pro-democracy camp (Hong Kong)

The pro-democracy camp or pan-democracy camp (Chinese: 民主派 or 泛民主派) refers to a political alignment that supports increased democracy, namely the universal suffrage of the Chief Executive and the Legislative Council as given by the Basic Law under the "One Country, Two Systems" framework.

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Pro-democracy camp (Macau)

Pro-democracy camp or pan-democracy camp (Chinese: 民主派, 泛民主派) refer to the politicians and social activists in Macau who support increased democracy and may work together in areas of common interest or by not fielding candidates against one another in elections.

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Qincheng Prison

Qincheng Prison is a maximum-security prison located in the Changping District, Beijing in the People's Republic of China, near Xiaotangshan.

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Quelling the People

Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement is a history book which investigates the conflict between the Chinese democracy movement in Beijing, China and the communist-ruled Chinese state's People's Liberation Army, culminating in the confrontation between the citizens of Beijing and the People's Liberation Army at Tiananmen Square in June 1989.

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Revolutionary Communist Party of China

The Revolutionary Communist Party of China (RCP) is a Trotskyist political party in China.

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Revolutions of 1989

The Revolutions of 1989 formed part of a revolutionary wave in the late 1980s and early 1990s that resulted in the end of communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond.

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Sakharov Prize

The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, commonly known as the Sakharov Prize, honours individuals and groups of people who have dedicated their lives to the defense of human rights and freedom of thought.

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Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China

Scarlet Memorial: Tales of Cannibalism in Modern China is a book of reportage literature (baogao wenxue) by the Chinese novelist Zheng Yi (郑义; born 1947).

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Shi Tao (journalist)

Shi Tao (born July 25, 1968) is a mainland Chinese journalist, writer and poet, who in 2005 was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years for releasing a document of the Communist Party to an overseas Chinese democracy site.

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Tank Man

Tank Man (also known as the Unknown Protester or Unknown Rebel) is the nickname of an unidentified man who stood in front of a column of tanks on June 5, 1989, the morning after the Chinese military had suppressed the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 by force.

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The Color Orange

The Color Orange, an organization established in 2008 by Jens Galschiøt, to highlight the violations of the human rights in China on the occasion of the Olympic Games in Beijing August 2008.

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The Fat Years

The Fat Years is a 2009 Chinese science fiction novel written by Chan Koonchung.

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Tiananmen Mothers

The Tiananmen Mothers is a group of Chinese democracy activists promoting a change in the government's position over the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

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Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (六四事件), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, in 1989.

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United Democrats of Hong Kong

The United Democrats of Hong Kong (UDHK) was a short-lived political party in Hong Kong founded in 1990 as the united front of the liberal democracy forces in preparation of the 1991 first ever direct election for the Legislative Council of Hong Kong.

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Vietnamese democracy movement

The term "Vietnamese democracy movement" comprises any of various isolated efforts to seek democratic reforms in Vietnam.

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Voice of Tibet (Norway)

Voice of Tibet is a radio station based in Norway transmitting shortwave radio programmes in the as well as.

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Wang Bingzhang (dissident)

Wang Bingzhang (born December 30, 1947) is a political activist and founder of two Chinese pro-democracy movements.

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Wang Dan (dissident)

Wang Dan (born February 26, 1969) is a leader of the Chinese democracy movement, was one of the most visible of the student leaders in the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

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Wei Jingsheng

Wei Jingsheng (born 20 May 1950, Beijing) is a Chinese human rights activist known for his involvement in the Chinese democracy movement.

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World Journal

World Journal is a daily Chinese language newspaper published in North America.

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Xinyu Zhang

Xinyu Zhang (born 5 March 1955 in Ordos, Inner Mongolia) is a computer software engineer.

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Yang Jianli

Yang Jianli (born Shandong, China, 1963) is a Chinese dissident with United States residency.

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Yitang Zhang

Yitang "Tom" Zhang is a Chinese-born American mathematician working in the area of number theory.

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Yu Dongyue

Yu Dongyue (Hanyu Pinyin: Yù Dōngyuè) was born in Liuyang, a city in Hunan province of China on December 4, 1964.

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Zhang Hongbao

Zhang Hongbao (5 January 1954 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China, - 31 July 2006, Arizona, USA) was the founder and spiritual leader of Zhong Gong, a qigong-based system of practices and beliefs.

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Zhang Xuezhong (academic)

Zhang Xuezhong (born 1976) is a Chinese academic of constitutional law and a human rights lawyer.

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1990 Pulitzer Prize

The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1990.

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2010 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2010 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to imprisoned Chinese human rights activist "for his long and non-violent struggle for fundamental human rights in China".

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2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests

The 2011 Chinese pro-democracy protests, also known as the Chinese Jasmine Revolution, refer to public assemblies in over a dozen cities in China starting on 20 February 2011, inspired by and named after the Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia; the actions that took and take place at protest sites, and response by the Chinese government to the calls and action.

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Redirects here:

China Democracy Movement, Chinese Democracy Movement, Chinese Socialist Democracy, Democracy movements in China, Free China Movement, June 4th Democratic Movement.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_democracy_movement

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