Chinese politician (1915-1989), former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party
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The Chinese Communist Party leader whose death sparked the Tiananmen Square protests. Forced out in 1987 for tolerating "bourgeois liberalization," Hu Yaobang's funeral in April 1989 became the flashpoint for student demands that Beijing could not contain.
Hu Yaobang joined the Chinese Communist Party in the 1930s and survived Mao Zedong's purges during the Cultural Revolution — thrown out, brought back, thrown out again. After Mao's death, he rose as Deng Xiaoping's close ally and became party Chairman in 1981, then General Secretary in 1982. He oversaw the rehabilitation of wrongful convictions and pushed economic and political reforms through the 1980s, making enemies among party elders opposed to free-market changes. When student protests swept China in late 1986, those elders blamed Hu's tolerance and convinced Deng to remove him in early 1…
Sourced, dated quotes from Hu Yaobang
We should not blame foreigners for problems afflicting China. There are things in the West that should be considered acceptable to us, and things that are unacceptable.
We should prepare more knives and forks, buy more plates and sit around the table to eat Chinese food in the Western style, that is, each from his own plate.
If you make the mistake of capitalism, you should not be criticized. But we should have self-criticism.
We are against the world war being fomented by the superpowers and also against all the local wars of aggression which they instigate or back.
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