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Democracy Wall Movement
Democracy Wall n. [after Chinese mínzhǔ qiáng (originally more fully Xīdān mínzhǔ qiáng , with reference to the district in which the wall was located: see quot. 1978) < mínzhǔ democracy + qiáng wall.] now historical a wall in Beijing, China, on which people placed posters, letters, poems, etc., criticizing the communist government and calling for the adoption of democratic reform; (hence) the democracy movement that arose from this in 1978; frequently attributive, esp. in Democracy Wall Movement.Posting messages on the wall was originally permitted by the Chinese authorities, but was eventually prohibited in December 1979.
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1978 Washington Post 28 Nov. a18/3 They want the ‘Hsi Tan democracy wall’ institutionalized as an area of free speech.
1980 Time 10 Nov. 51 Wang belongs..to an unofficial group called the ‘Stars’, which grew out of last year's Democracy Wall movement.
1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 27 Sept. 30/4 Young activists posted independent views on the Democracy Wall in Beijing and were soon arrested..They did not know about Deng Xiaoping's persecution of the participants in the Democracy Wall Movement, or about the Fifth Modernization.
2010 New Yorker 24 May 58/3 He also participated in an incipient political movement called Democracy Wall, in which activists produced magazines and posters calling for reform.
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