Some of you from Shanghai probably already know this, but since I rarely see this being talked about, Im just going to share this very briefly here.

The Decade: Lead up to June 89
The democracy protests across China starting from 79 set off many protests over the next decade (75 if include the protests that ended the CR, but 79 if you want to start from the democracy wall event). Different regions protested at different times. Specifically about Shanghai, the major protests were 82? (I cant remember anymore), 86 and 89. The 86 protests coincided with protests in Hefei and Nanjing. However, the 89 protests were a big deal because it occurred across 200 cities. In SH 89, the protests leading up to June was very significant because the daily multiple rallies would bring in non-student protestors too. The involvement was so significant that people stopped going to work and joined the multiple corridors of rallies. Many roads were blockaded and the city was largely cut off from the outside.

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2 major events in 89 SH
1) News of a massacre in Beijing reached SH. Approximately 100,000 people went to people's square to issue the three demands. (One of them being footage of the Beijing massacre). Military police were deployed to clear the square but they were incredibly outnumbered. Over the next month, reinforcements were brought in and slowly the square and rest of city blockades was cleared out. People were scared that SH would be put in martial law like BJ, but it never got to that.
2) Protestors had closed the train lines into the city, but a train with reinforcements of military police being brought from Hangzhou came through a blockade and killed many people. A fight broke out between personnel on the train and protestors. (Photos of the train afterwards show it was completely wrecked from fire). Later on workers bombed at least another train coming into SH.
.... Essentially these two major events were quite costly in terms of life, and by mid-September the protests in SH was over.

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Repercussions
Fortunately, SH was spared martial law. Some of the notable punishments were arrests of students, intellectuals and journalists for being the catalysts. Workers and their work units were also punished...the most hair raising event was when three of them (Xu Guoming, Bian Hanwu, Yan Xuerong) were publicly executed and their family had to pay for the bullets.

I include their names because I personally think 伊拉是最罪過個. (in Shanghainese 罪過 means pitiful, different to its meaning in Mandarin).