1989

"it was true that the 1989 student movement was being manipulated by someone, wasn't it? The students had nothing but boiling emotions and superficial knowledge of politics. We started only the cleaning up of corruption and smuggling by officials, yet the slogan were somehow led through a transformation into ones "demanding democracy". There is huge difference in political implication between these two classes of demands. So what was democracy? What kind of democracy was practiced in the west? What kind of democracy would benefit China? Frankly, I (we) didn't know".

written by a former student who took part in the student protests in China in 1989, which eventually led to the now infamous incident at Tiananmen Square on June 4th.