Deng never came close to bringing democracy to China: in 1989 he snuffed out China's nascent democracy movement in the infamous Tiananmen Square massacre. But he did understand that "the success ...

Chinese-style democracy, evolving amid the influence of traditional values and modern trends, exhibits several distinctive features: First, China can be described as a meritocratic democracy ...

Cries For Democracy: Writings and Speeches from the Chinese Democracy Movement Minzhu Han "Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, ...

This months-long “Umbrella Movement” in turn precipitated the more confrontational, but more broad-based, 2019 democracy protests. The Chinese government crushed the protests by imposing the ...

Human rights in Asia suffered one setback after another in 1989. The peaceful Chinese democracy movement was crushed, leaving as many as 1000 dead and tens of thousands to be arrested throughout ...

At The Guardian, Amy Hawkins reported on Xu Zhiyong’s hunger strike, mistreatment in prison, and his iconic role in the Chinese democracy and civil-society movement: “I would say that Xu ...

But the national security law, which China says was necessary ... saying the pro-democracy group at parliament, and the movement at large, still has strong public support. "People are angry ...

Giving the pro-democracy movement any more of what the Communist Party strains every fibre of its organisational structure to deny to the mass of Chinese people is impossible. Its values are ...

For years, Hong Kong and Macao were the only cities in China where people were allowed to mark the 1989 anniversary of Beijing’s crushing of the Chinese democracy movement.

A growing majority of people in Hong Kong support the pro-democracy movement's goals after China introduced a national security law for the city, but backing for the protest movement was a smaller ...