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Author: Eddie Cheng Publisher: Eddie Cheng ISBN: 0982320302 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
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A narrative history, told from the point of view of student demonstrators, of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident and events leading to it incident in Beijing, China.
Author: Eddie Cheng Publisher: Eddie Cheng ISBN: 0982320302 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 317
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A narrative history, told from the point of view of student demonstrators, of the 1989 Tiananmen Square incident and events leading to it incident in Beijing, China.
Author: Jeremy Brown Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1009038648 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 295
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The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently. The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.
Author: Chaohua Wang Publisher: Verso ISBN: 9781788735476 Category : China Languages : en Pages : 0
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30 years after the massacre of June 4, 1989: a personal account of the democratic protests of Tiananmen Square and reflections on how they transformed modern China In April, 1989, the sudden death of Hu Yaobang caused a public outcry. On the day of Hu's memorial, thousands of students, including Chaohua Wang who became a leading member of the standing committee of the Beijing Autonomous Association of College Students, crowded onto Tiananmen Square in the centre of Beijing to protest the Party's handling of recent reforms. Despite initial attempts to quell the protests, with both Party and the state media branding the gathering as 'unpatriotic,' the students launched one big rally after another, eventually occupying the square in a mass hunger strike in mid May. In The People and the Party, Wang recreates the events of the square, integrating the drama with an in depth analysis of what was going on in the headquarters of the central government and the army, as they attempt to regain control and impose order. By June 2, the Party elders agreed that decisive action was needed, and the Army was sent into the city. Over the next two days troops violently cleared the protesters; thousands were reported to be killed and many more injured. The book vividly recalls these events, and also analyses how they changed the course of Chinese history over the following thirty years. Wang was named as one of the 21 most wanted leaders of the student movement. She spent more than 6 months in hiding before traveling to the U.S. Since then, China has continued its policies of marketization without democratization, becoming the world's newest superpower.
Author: Lee Feigon Publisher: Ivan R. Dee Publisher ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 294
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This book is the first authoratative account of the Chinese student movement for democracy which ended in the massacre in Tiananmen Square in the spring of 1989.
Author: Chu-yuan Cheng Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0429718993 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 293
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The 1989 prodemocracy movement in the People's Republic of China and the subsequent crackdown were marked by many dramatic reversals. Supported at first by several thousand Beijing University students, the movement quickly attracted millions of followers and developed into a nationwide mass movement. The jubilant mood during the short-lived freedom in Tiananmen Square turned into despair over the unnecessary bloodshed. The event raised many deeply disturbing questions: Was the massacre necessary and justified? What is the historical significance of this movement? Which path will the PRC follow in the decade ahead? Although no one had anticipated the tragic outcome, the popular unrest was not totally unexpected. When I read the news of 200,000 Beijing students and residents, in open defiance of the government's order, staging a largescale demonstration on Apri120, I knew a confrontation between the people and the government was inevitable.
Author: Chan Kai Yee Publisher: ISBN: 9781450286640 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 316
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Many people think that the massacre at Tiananmen Square was a complete victory for the communists in charge of China, but history proves that is not the case. Chan Kai Yee, who suffered through the Cultural Revolution while Mao Zedong ruled China with an iron fist, describes how elite intellectuals prepared to fight back. His profound knowledge of history and close contacts with key dissenters give him an unmatched perspective on events, which culminated with the protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Thousands of people died in the Tiananmen Square massacre; while the Communist Party ostensibly remained in power, their leading members start to worry. The massacre helped reformers overcome the resistance of stalwart conservatives who previously would not budge from their positions. Gradually, talented intellectuals began to mount a silent, peaceful coup d état to seize control of the country. With intellectuals running the country, China became a dominant world power that could surpass the United States. Discover how a band of intellectuals transformed a nation and the world in Tiananmen s Tremendous Achievements.
Author: Liang Zhang Publisher: Public Affairs ISBN: 0786725478 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 582
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On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these events came to pass from behind the scenes. The material reveals how the most important decisions were made; and how the turmoil split the ruling elite into radically opposed factions. The book includes the minutes of the crucial meetings at which the Elders decided to cashier the pro-reform Party secretary Zhao Ziyang and to replace him with Jiang Zemin, to declare martial law, and finally to send the troops to drive the students from the Square. Just as the Pentagon Papers laid bare the secret American decision making behind the Vietnam War and changed forever our view of the nation's political leaders, so too has The Tiananmen Papers altered our perception of how and why the events of June 4 took the shape they did. Its publication has proven to be a landmark event in Chinese and world history.
Author: Eddie Cheng
Author: Eddie Cheng
Author: Jeremy Brown
Author: Andrew Langley
Author: Chaohua Wang
Author: Lee Feigon
Author: Chu-yuan Cheng
Author: Chan Kai Yee
Author: Liang Zhang
Author: United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Author: Scott Simmie