Editing Beijing Spring (section)

{{Short description|Late-1970s period of liberalization in China}}
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{{Chinese democracy movement}}

The '''Beijing Spring''' ({{zh|c=北京之春|p=Běijīng zhī chūn}}) refers to a brief period of political [[liberalization]] during the "[[Boluan Fanzheng]]" period in the [[People's Republic of China]] (PRC).<ref name=":0" /> It began as the [[Democracy Wall]] movement in [[Beijing]], which occurred in 1978 and 1979, right after the end of the [[Chinese Cultural Revolution]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last1=Brodsgaard|first1=Kjeld Erik|date=1981|title=The Democracy Movement in China, 1978–1979: Opposition Movements, Wall Poster Campaigns, and Underground Journals|journal=Asian Survey|volume=21|issue=7|pages=747–774|doi=10.2307/2643619|jstor=2643619|issn=0004-4687}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Levine|first1=Jill|date=2013|title=Deng Xiaoping, Dazibao and Dissent: A Critical Analysis of the Xidan Democracy Wall Movement|url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/10673321.pdf|journal=Senior Capstone Project|access-date=2020-05-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190414001043/https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/10673321.pdf|archive-date=2019-04-14|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=frontline: the gate of heavenly peace|url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gate/|website=www.pbs.org|access-date=2020-05-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508172348/https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gate/|archive-date=2020-05-08|url-status=live}}</ref> The name is derived from "[[Prague Spring]]", an analogous event which occurred in [[Czechoslovakia]] in 1968.