Throwaway Daughter Summary

The Tiananmen Square Massacre greatly impacted the way the rest of the world viewed the Chinese government. Imagine not having the freedom of speech that we do today, or living in a country that kills the innocent. In 1989, college students exercised their right to freedom of speech while protesting their communist leaders, and the leaders of Communist China put the demonstration down with military force resulting in possibly thousands killed. But, throughout the last 25 years China has grown and developed into a much different country than it was during the late 1980’s. Granted, the country still has a long way to go before it resembles the democracy present in the United States today, but it seems to be headed in the right direction.

     The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston presents the story of a girl trapped between the cultures of her surrounding environment and that which her mother and family have forced upon her. Knowing only the Chinese way of life, this girl’s mother attempts to familiarize her daughter, whom is also the narrator, with the history of their family. The mother shares this heritage through the use of stories in hopes the narrator will be prepared for her ultimate return to China, which is a life completely foreign to her own. Through these stories and the strong influence of the surrounding American culture, the narrator’s life and imagination spin off in a new direction. She is confronted by

The apex of Wong’s book is how she displays the emotional overtones in reciting her account of the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989. She tells of being holed up in a hotel across the street from the square and actually being able to see the violence between the protesting students and citizens, and the soldiers of the People’s Liberation Army. When she describes bodies falling from gunshot wounds, people being squashed by tanks, and the bullets ricocheting off their hotel walls, it produces multiple senses of horror, sorrow, and absolute terror. She further hammers this point across by displaying two images taken from the scene (245). The first is of a PLA platoon leader who was beaten, set afire, disemboweled, and to add further insult, positioned so that he would serve as an example of what the proletariats were capable of. The second, was of PLA soldiers examining the destruction of Tiananmen Square after they seized the square. Smoke and debris from the protestors are widely prevalent, and the image was even used in a propaganda brochure for the government.

In the town of My Lai on March 16, 1968 was not a day you would be wanting to visit. U.S troops were ordered to conduct a massacre killing 500 plus innocent old men, women, and children.

On June 5, 1989, soldiers and tanks from China's People’s Liberation Army physically oppressed the student led protesters. The events surrounding this day are referred to as the Tiananmen Square Protest of 1989, a democracy movement calling for political and social reforms in the Republic of China. The deaths that occurred as a consequence of the Tiananmen Square Protest was not the fault of the students, but rather, the disastrous situation of China beforehand, the common belief that demonstrations would succeed, and the government’s obstinate decisions.

The “Tank Man” picture was taken on June 5, 1989 in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square, but the “Tank Man” still remains unidentified. China’s government began to violently cracking down on protestors in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. When the tanks started driving down the street, a man in a white shirt and black jeans decided to step in front of an approaching line of military tanks. The nonviolent, calm protestor, walked in front of the tanks to halt them to a stop. The tanks tried to go around the man, but the man kept moving positions to stay in front of the tanks until he was escorted away from the tanks.

Girl in Reverse, by Barbara Stuber, is a novel about a Chinese-American girl who lives with her foster parents in Kansas City. Throughout the course of the book, the protagonist, Lily and her brother, Ralph, try to unveil the mystery of Lily’s birth mother. However, this mission is not easy if you are Lily Firestone. Lily is a natural seen enemy who faces prejudice at school and in society. Together, Lily and Ralph fight against various obstacles in order to accomplish their goal. These two characters are foils that represent determination through their persistence, defiance, and curiosity.

She tried to give her brother a better afterlife even if that meant breaking the law. The last non-violent incident happened on June 4th and the name is Tiananmen Square. College students wanted the government to turn to democracy and not be a communist government anymore. It was a peaceful strike and almost a million people came to protest in Beijing. The top figure leaders came to debate and on the morning of June 4th, 1989 the chinese troops opened fired on the civilians.

As a primary source the origin of this source is a two page parliamentary statement by former Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke “expresses outrage” at the “massive and indiscriminate slaughter” of demonstrators by the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Tiananmen Square, in June 1989. The purpose is to provide the general public with insight into the Australian government’s rationale for the position they took in response to the events of Tiananmen Square. It reinforces the Prime Minister’s outrage with the actions taken by the

The Prodemocracy Movement, the Bloody Massacre in Tiananmen Square, and the Tiananmen Square Incident or Massacre are just a few of the names of the protests that went wrong that began in April 1989 and came to an upsetting end in June 1989. The citizens of China had wanted a political form for a long time, but did not know how and when to start. The protests started when a favored government official died. Shortly after, Mikhail Gorbachev visited Communist China, and everyone was jealous of the relationship he had with his people. The protesters went on a hunger strike because they wished they had leaders like Gorbachev. This gained the support of many people, and eventually there were over one million people camped out in Tiananmen Square asking for a change in their corrupt government. The government officials got very angry and send out an army to use against their own people. A great deal of people died and a ton were injured. Because the media was able to cover a majority of everything that happened, everyone around the world saw it, and it changed their thoughts of the Chinese government. The Tiananmen Square Massacre ruined China 's international image throughout the world.

The passage starts off by telling the readers that the troops did not attack the students in Tiananmen Square even though there are videos, pictures, and witnesses to prove that they did attack and kill hundreds or maybe even thousands of people. The government claims that no one died in Tiananmen Square and the author, William Lutz, seems to be brainwashed to believe it too, much

In 1989 Beijing, China at the Forbidden City, an event happened on June 4th at the Tiananmen Square. There was a massacre caused by the government at the Tiananmen Square, due to the actions of the university students protesting for democracy. But thousands of university students along with Chinese citizens were slayed and arrested that night including my friends Lao Xu and Xin Hua.

Like the Romanian Revolution of 1989, the Tiananmen Square Protests was capitulated for the same reason; opposition towards a leader who had heavy rule over the country, in which the people had little say in the way the government was run. The authorities declared martial law, and mobilized more than 300,000 troops to Beijing in order to stop the protests from spreading throughout all of China. As a result, the Tiananmen Square Massacre in (known in China as “the July 4th Incident”) ended with roughly 500 fatalities. Today, it remains one of the most sensitive and heavily censored topics in all of

“Chinese troops violently retook the square in Beijing where pro-democracy protesters had set up camp for weeks. The Tiananmen Square massacre left an unknown number dead, with some estimates in the thousands, and smothered a democratic movement.” (Rayman, 2014)

With thousands left wounded, a seemingly countless number of citizens reported dead, and a country left with a reputation in jeopardy. All of these were the consequences of a shocking and devastating event which happened on the 4th of June 1989, the Tiananmen Square massacre. Overtime this has been viewed as a major turning point in Chinese history. It catalyzed movements for generations across the world.