Marches in N.Y., Chicago
Hundreds of Chinese students burned effigies of Chinese leaders Li Peng and Deng Xiaoping in Chicago and marched in New York and in Lansing, Mich., on Sunday in continuing shows of support for their pro-democracy colleagues back home.
“We wish to boost their morale,” said Tony Tam, a 31-year-old native of Hong Kong and a student at the University of Chicago.
About 1,500 people, most of them Chinese students, demonstrated in Chicago, and about 1,200 marched to the Chinese Consulate in New York.
In Lansing, about 400 Chinese and Chinese-American students attending Michigan colleges marched on the state Capitol.
The United States is host to about 40,000 students from China, and similar demonstrations have erupted in cities around the country.
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