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Article: 'Everything was ideal until 1989' Tiananmen Square chaos drove physicist to suburbs.(Series: Crossing China: Stories of Suburban Immigrants)(News)
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- Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
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- April 27, 2006
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Byline: Tara Malone Daily Herald Staff Writer
BEIJING - Weimin Wu shouldn't have been there.
Thousands of university students swarmed Beijing's Tiananmen Square, demanding democratic reform and an end to corruption that crippled the communist party swept to power by popular unrest four decades earlier.
Armed with banners and a conviction that China needed to change, university students marshaled a movement that drew city workers, farmers, journalists and scientists.
Student leaders were too young to know what would follow: military sweeps, arrests and a paranoia that turned neighbor against neighbor.
But he knew.
Wu ...