Posted on 11/11/2024 7:54:18 AM PST by george76
Neat! I’ll have to look for it!
The Party stays in power through the perception that it has the “mandate of heaven”.
That perception is dependent on people seeing a constant rise in the standard of living from generation to generation. The Chinese equivalent of the “American Dream “.
Take that away, and they face rebellion.
It certainly would have "exploded" immediately. I've met many "Gen-X" Chinese from Beijing who have said that by May, they were getting tired and started to go back to campus/home.
But it took 4-6 weeks for the news to filter out into the provinces and for students from distant cities to show up in Beijing. So non-locals were the vast majority of people at Tiananmen on June 4
I knew a female lawyer from Shanghai-area who was a student at the time, and travelled to Beijing in late May to join the protests. At the train station in the crush of people, she tripped, fell and knocked out 3 of her teeth. So she went to the hospital and then returned home. Otherwise, she would have been there on June 4.
It’s amazing that for the most part, it’s gone down the Memory Hole.
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