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  • 3 - China’s 1980s

  • from Part One - China’s 1980s
  • Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book:
    June Fourth
    Published online:
    01 April 2021
    Print publication:
    01 April 2021, pp 32-36

  • Summary

    If the elders who forced Hu Yaobang from office had retired from politics, Hu and Zhao Ziyang would have had time and space to deepen economic and political reforms, a scenario that would have reduced the chances of protests and violence in 1989. The two-child policy proposed by demographer Liang Zhongtang would have been less harsh than the one-child policy, but a cultural shift in sexual norms would have been necessary to prevent the traumas experienced by Chai Ling, Lu Decheng, and Wang Qiuping.

  • 2 - Angry

  • from Part One - China’s 1980s
  • Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
  • Book:
    June Fourth
    Published online:
    01 April 2021
    Print publication:
    01 April 2021, pp 16-31

  • Summary

    There were escalating sources of unhappiness and frustration during the 1980s in China, including anti-crime campaigns, crackdowns on student protests, the one-child policy, corruption, inflation, and an ossified political system characterized by old-man politics. These problems added up to a volatile situation in 1989.