A woman holds a blank sheet of paper as demonstrators protest the deaths caused by an apartment complex fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China, at the Langson Library on the campus of the University of ...

In one of China’s greatest displays of public discontent since the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, an unconventional item has come to symbolize the new protests: a blank sheet of white paper.

BEIJING, (IANS) – Blank sheets of paper have become an iconic item during the protests, which many now refer to as “white paper revolution”, “blank sheet revolution” or “A4 revolution.” During various ...

In Shanghai, a vigil grew into a street protest where many held blank sheets of white paper in a symbol of tacit defiance. In Beijing, students at Tsinghua University raised signs showing a math ...