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The dialogue on April 29, 1989, was the first dialogue between student and government representatives to be recorded and broadcast. It was attended by government representatives Yuan Mu (spokesman for State Council), He Dongchang, Yuan Liben, Lu Yucheng and student representatives from 16 different Beijing institutions. [7]
Student groups began accusing each other of ulterior motives, such as collusion with the government and trying to gain personal fame from the movement. Some students even tried to oust Chai Ling, and Feng Congde from their leadership positions in an attempted kidnapping, an action Chai called a "well-organised and premeditated plot". [56]
The Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation was the largest student union which participated in the protests, however its leadership was often divided and it did not have centralized control of the movement. With no single organization responsible for the creation of propaganda smaller groups of students took the initiative to create and ...
"China in 1989: The Crisis of Incomplete Reform." Asian Survey, Vol 30, No.1, A Survey of Asia in 1989: Part 1 (Jan., 1990),pp. 25–41. Khu, Josephine. "Student Organization in the Movement," Chinese Democracy and the Crisis of 1989: Chinese and American Reflections. eds. Roger V. Des Forges, Luo Ning, Wu Yen-bo.Albany: State University of New ...
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, commonly known in mainland China as the June Fourth Incident (Chinese: 六四事件; pinyin: liùsì shìjiàn), were student-led demonstrations in Beijing (the capital of the People's Republic of China) in 1989.
On April 17 and 18, 1989, students were mostly confined to the campus of the university, [17] however, by April 24, students at Nankai had begun to boycott classes. [18] They marched in crowds that gathered to over 20,000 and now carried banners and signs. [19] Large student protests occurred again to the April 26 Editorial two days later.
Student leaders like Wu'er Kaixi believed it was a good idea, but students like Li Jinjin, a master's student from Peking University's Beijing Students' Autonomous Federation, believed that the strike would set the movement back. [7] After the May Fourth protests of 1989, the protests lost momentum and students were beginning to return to class.
During the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, People's Daily played an important role in changing the course of events, especially its April 26 Editorial that provoked great tension between the government and the students when the movement was slowly abating after Hu Yaobang's memorial on April 25.