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Chinese Students Speak Out, Part One
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CURRENT ISSUES
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9 / 1989 |
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The whole world is holding its breath with all eyes on China. China has been implementing economic reforms for a decade, and the free world has encouraged those reforms. Everyone has an interest in China's future. And no one better represents that future than China's students, at home and abroad. The brutal June 4 massacre at Tiananmen Square in Beijing has rallied China's intellectuals as no cause has ever before. THE WORLD & I presents a forum of Chinese students responding to questions on a range of issues. Participants included doctoral candidates Sheng Ping Feng of Priceton University in New Jersey; Jia Hao of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.; and Wen Xie of Colombia University in New York. Current Issues editor Laurie Burras of The World & I moderated the forum. The following is Part One; Part Two will appear next month, together with a Special Section titled China: Forty years of Revolution.
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THE WORLD & I: Many people in the West have criticized the demonstrations in China, saying that the students there don't really know what they want. What do you think the students mean by "democracy," and what is their vision of democracy in China?
JIA: I would like to refer to the movement as the Chinese people's democratic movement, although the participants of the movement were quite different--you know, from very different groups in the society. And in terms of democracy, I judge the movement by its historical direction instead of its specific slogans. And in my knowledge, quite a few students advanced their requirement in terms of personal freedom and political democracy. And I also know quite a few of
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