Editing Democracy movements of China (section)

=== Development ===
Throughout the 1980s, these ideas increased in popularity among college-educated Chinese, through the "[[New Enlightenment (China)|New Enlightenment movement]]" led by intellectuals.<ref name=":12">{{Cite book |last=Li |first=Huaiyin |title=Reinventing Modern China: Imagination and Authenticity in Chinese Historical Writing |date=October 2012 |publisher=[[University of Hawaiʻi Press]] |isbn=9780824836085 |chapter=6 Challenging the Revolutionary Orthodoxy: “New Enlightenment” Historiography in the 1980s |doi=10.21313/hawaii/9780824836085.003.0006}}</ref><ref name=":4">{{Cite journal |last=Chen |first=Yan |date=2007 |title=意识形态的兴衰与知识分子的起落—— "反右"运动与八十年代"新启蒙"的背景分析 |trans-title=The rise and fall of ideology and intellectuals—background analysis of the Anti-Rightist Campaign and the New Enlightenment in the 1980s |url=https://www.modernchinastudies.org/us/issues/past-issues/97-mcs-2007-issue-3/1017-2012-01-05-15-35-22.html |journal=[[Modern China Studies]] |volume=3}}</ref>
Overseas pro-democracy organizations including the [[Chinese Alliance for Democracy]] were founded by Chinese activists. [[1986 Chinese student demonstrations|Student protests]] inspired by intellectuals broke out in 1986.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Shi |first=Tianjian |date=1990 |title=The Democratic Movement in China in 1989: Dynamics and Failure |journal=[[Asian Survey]] |volume=30 |issue=12 |pages=1186–1205 |doi=10.2307/2644993 |issn=0004-4687 |jstor=2644993}}</ref> 

In the wake of growing [[corruption]] and economic dislocation, the [[1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre|Tiananmen Square protests]] erupted in 1989, which culminated in a military crackdown in June.