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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.

  • 1 - Happy

  • 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 3-15

  • Summary

    Political opening, romantic freedoms, economic reforms, and such moderate political leaders as Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang sparked happiness for many people in China during the 1980s, but their high hopes created heightened expectations that would be dashed by the end of the decade.

  • 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.