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democracy / democratic
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Wang Dan (1969-), Chinese dissident, one of the leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
democracy (as a system of government)
China Association for Promoting Democracy (abbr. for 中國民主促進會|中国民主促进会)
civil transport / movement aimed at the masses / democracy movement (abbr.)
democracy (loanword) (old)
Lai Chee-ying, aka Jimmy Lai (1947-), Hong Kong media tycoon, prominent critic of the CCP and supporter of the pro-democracy camp 民主派
Örkesh Dölet (1968-), one of the main leaders of the Beijing student democracy movement of 1989
River Elegy, influential 1988 CCTV documentary series, said to have stimulated the Beijing Spring democracy movement of 1980s
social democracy
the New Culture Movement (mid-1910s and 1920s), intellectual revolution against Confucianism aiming to introduce Western elements, especially democracy and science
"Mr Democracy", phrase used during the May 4th Movement 五四運動|五四运动 / abbr. for 德謨克拉西|德谟克拉西 / see also 賽先生|赛先生
On New Democracy (1940), by Mao Zedong
democracy (as an ideology)
Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912
China Association for Promoting Democracy (one of the non-Communist political parties in China)
Tongmenghui, Sun Yat-sen's alliance for democracy, founded 1905, became the Guomindang 國民黨|国民党 in 1912
Charter 08, PRC pro-democracy petition of December 2008
(Hong Kong politics) the pro-democracy camp (founded 1987), aka the pan-democrats
Demosistō, a pro-democracy political party in Hong Kong, established in 2016
to convert to democracy; democratic transformation
Myanmar or Burma National league for democracy (NLD)
New Democracy
(Maoism) New Democracy (aka New Democratic Revolution)
social democracy
anti-Qing revolutionary party set up in Changsha by 黃興|黄兴 in 1904, a precursor of Sun Yat-sen's Alliance for Democracy 同盟會|同盟会 and of the Guomindang
Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy, Hong Kong
New Democracy Party of China, a short-lived party founded in 2007 by human rights activist Guo Quan, who was jailed in 2009
Democracy Wall, Beijing (1978-1979), and bulletin boards inspired by it, in some Hong Kong universities
democracy / civil liberties / principle of democracy, the second of Dr Sun Yat-sen's 孫中山|孙中山 Three Principles of the People 三民主義|三民主义 (at the time, meaning widespread popular involvement in affairs of state)
Kaohsiung Incident (aka Formosa Incident), a crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, on 10 December 1979 during Taiwan's martial law period


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