Most Chinese do not look favorably on student protests like those that took place in Tiananmen Square. It is true they are largely unaware of the events that took place there.
Offering a recount of the Tiananmen event to a Chinese national that does not have details about it will result in the reply “not good”. That is not good as in the student protest there wwere not a good thing.
The explanation for this is that it was the students that brought on much of the abuses of the Cultural Revolution. Those times still stings in the minds of Chinese that lived through it.
The event at Tiananmen cannot be viewed through Western eyes if you want to understand Chinese sentiment about it and other student protests.
Yeah the article is excerpted. The author is Chinese and he finishes with why we won’t be seeing any student protests any time soon for those reasons you mentioned.