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Chinese Students Speak Out, Part Two
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SPECIAL SECTION
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10 / 1989 |
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Even as China reaches the 40th anniversary of its communist revolution, another struggle is under way: the fight for liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as Chinese youth understand them. The World & I continues its examination of this movement in the second of a two-part roundtable discussion with doctoral candidates Hao Jia of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; Wen Xie of Columbia University in New York; and Sheng Ping Feng of Princeton University in New Jersey. Laurie Burras, a Current Issues editor at The World & I, moderated the forum. What follows are insights that only Chinese students themselves can provide.
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THE WORLD & I: It has been estimated that 500,000 Taiwanese have gone to China since 1987. What impact to they have there?
XIE: I don't think they played significant roles in this movement. They have kind of indirect influence that opens Chinese eyes to show the Chinese people what they can do if they have a different system; however, I think the Chinese here [in the United States] did a lot of things for this movement, both directly and indirectly. In the long run, I think the dynamics of the Chinese democratic movement will come from China, not from here.
JIA: I would say that economic reform and open policy in general and students and scholars studying abroad played a particularly significant role, although not a decisive role in China's latest democratic movement. On one side, friends and colleagues who studied and researched in the West were very active in this event. Not simply in terms of their
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