Download free Chinese Society on the Eve of Tiananmen. On Tiananmen anniversary eve, Taiwan urges China to 'repent' "However, all these noises will have no real impact on Chinese society. The actions of the external forces are completely in vain." The far more well-read Chinese-language version of the paper did not carry the editorial. On the eve of the 1989 protests, Xu was a 35-year-old photographer who just left a prime position at Beijing's largest advertising agency. Chinese society was still recovering from the decade-long Cultural Revolution, and the ideological trends of Deng Xiaoping