The Chinese protestors also brought entertainment and creativity to the protest: "Teenagers strummed Bob Dylan ballads around campfires and danced in the dark. The Beijing Symphony Orchestra brought its instruments and gave an impromptu performance of Beethoven's Ode to Joy. Art students erected a replica of the Statute of Liberty right opposite the huge portrait of Chairman Mao on the square's northern edge. Professors gave seminars on Thomas Paine and the French Revolution. Hundreds of students, Liu Xiaobo, Zhou Duo, Hou Dejian, and Gao Xin went on a hunger strike to protest against martial law and call for a peaceful transition to democracy" (Jian 5). However, even though the protest was nonviolent and orderly, the Chinese Communist Party sent over 200,000 soldiers to stop the protest in Tiananmen Square. In a result, the soldiers injured and killed over a thousand protestors. The murders that happened in Tiananmen Square just shows how cutthroat the CCP are. The CCP would rather "massacre its own unarmed citizens in order to maintain power" (Jian 3). The families of the dead citizens were not given the right to mourn their deceased loved ones; the victim's families are "harassed for challenging government officials" and are not allowed to mourn for their fallen members (Nicol 8). "China's government has yet to switch from a communist government to a democracy. "The CCP claim that China has no need for constitutional democracy, and is much better off following its own 'exceptional' path of political dictatorship" (Jian 1).
"Tiananmen Square 25 Years on" is an argumentative type essay that also includes elements of a narrative essay. Jian describes the sad event that took place in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Jian uses his own experience as a way to talk about Chinese Communism, pro-democracy protestors, and the large amount of killings in China.
