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Highlighting some unique features (the Red Flag/East Wind factional split, the influence of the Li Yizhe case, the Hongkong connection etc.), the study analyzes the democracy movement in Guangzhou. Background to this movement: developments in Guangzhou, 1966-79. Cultural revolution factionalism following the demobilization of the Red Guards in 1968. Emergence of the Criticize Lin Biao, Criticize Confucius Campaign in 1974. The beginning and the end of the democracy movement in Guangzhou 1979-82. (DÜI-Sen)

China's "democracy movement" seems, for the moment, to have passed into history. It began with wall-posters in Beijing in November 1978 and reached its high-tide the following February and March. By late March–April 1979, however, the first of a series of restrictions had been placed on participants, and the movement's most outspoken representatives, such as Wei Jingsheng, had been arrested. A year later there was a second crackdown, and even moderate members of the movement were ordered to desist. The final crackdown occurred in April 1981 and resulted in the arrest of more than 20 activists. Although the movement focused upon Beijing, where a wide variety of "unofficial" or "people's publications" (minjian kanwu) vied for domestic and international attention, many of China's provinces and cities produced their own "democracy activists" and publications.