{"id":39200,"date":"2009-05-21T19:44:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-22T02:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/?p=39200"},"modified":"2009-05-21T22:04:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-22T05:04:29","slug":"tiananmen-now-seems-distant-to-china%e2%80%99s-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2009\/05\/tiananmen-now-seems-distant-to-china%e2%80%99s-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiananmen Now Seems Distant to China\u2019s Students (Updated)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A look at Peking University students 20 years after the Tiananmen Incident, from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/05\/22\/world\/asia\/22tiananmen.html?_r=1&#038;ref=asia&#038;pagewanted=all\"><strong>New York Times<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On April 30, the cellphones of the 32,630 students at Peking University, a genteel institution widely regarded as one of China\u2019s top universities, buzzed with a text message from the school administration. It warned students to \u201cpay attention to your speech and behavior\u201d on Youth Day because of a \u201cparticularly complex\u201d situation.<\/p>\n<p>Few students had to puzzle over the meaning. Youth Day, on May 4, commemorates a 1919 student protest against foreign imperialism and China\u2019s weakness in resisting it. Seventy years later, in 1989, students from Peking University were again massing in the center of Beijing, demanding democracy. The student movement shook the ruling Communist Party to its core and ended with a military crackdown and hundreds of deaths.<\/p>\n<p>And if a student today proposed a pro-democracy protest?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople would think he was insane,\u201d said one Peking University history major in a recent interview. \u201cYou know where the line is drawn. You can think, maybe talk, think about the events of 1989. You just cannot do something that will have any public influence. Everybody knows that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: Read also<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nationworld\/world\/la-fg-china-youth22-2009may22,0,6436494.story?track=rss\"> a similarly-themed article<\/a> from the Los Angeles Times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A look at Peking University students 20 years after the Tiananmen Incident, from New York Times: On April 30, the cellphones of the 32,630 students at Peking University, a genteel institution widely regarded as one of China\u2019s top universities, buzzed with a text message from the school administration. 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