ABSTRACT
In the early hours of May 8 (Beijing time), 1999, three U.S. bombs ripped into the Chinese embassy in Belgrade during NATO's air strikes against Yugoslavia. Twenty people were injured, and three people, all journalists, were killed. The dead were 48-year-old female Shao Yunhuan and a young married couple, 31-year-old Xu Xinghu and his 28-year-old wife, Zhu Ying. They were quickly hailed as "revolutionary martyrs." The incident sparked mass anti-U.S. demonstrations, apparently led by university students, in cities across China, including Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Chengdu, Chongqing, Shenyang, Nanjing, Changsha, Xiamen, Lanzhou, Hefei, Jinan, and Hong Kong. The demonstrations in front of the U.S. embassy in Beijing were particularly vitriolic, with as many as 100,000 students and residents shouting slogans; holding up photos, placards, and banners; pasting up posters; throwing objects; and harassing and spitting at foreigners.
