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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787800850196
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)
Download or read book The Beijing Riot written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009038648
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book June Fourth written by Jeremy Brown and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Marcia Amidon Lüsted
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781616136864
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)
Download or read book Tiananmen Square Protests written by Marcia Amidon Lüsted and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2011 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events and aftermath of the massacre by the Chinese army of protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Author : VIJAY. GOKHALE
Publisher : HarperCollins India
ISBN 13 : 9789354225352
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Tiananmen Square written by VIJAY. GOKHALE and published by HarperCollins India. This book was released on 2021 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I recall being woken by the sound of tanks moving down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. It was 5 o'clock on the morning of 4 June. Tanks, APCs and troop trucks were sweeping down the avenue. Citizens ran for cover. Helicopters hovered above. Foreign media
Author : Jeff Hay
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 0737751304
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (377 download)
Download or read book The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 written by Jeff Hay and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2010-02-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will examine the historical events leading up to and following China's 1989 Tiananmen Square protests. This volume looks at issues surrounding the incident such as the impact on democracy, the relationship between economic and political reform in China, and the legitimacy of the Tiananmen Papers of 2001. It also offers personal perspectives from people affected by the protests.
Author : Ho-fung Hung
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231152035
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Protest with Chinese Characteristics written by Ho-fung Hung and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of political modernity has long been tied to the Western history of protest and revolution, the currents of which many believe sparked popular dissent worldwide. Reviewing nearly one thousand instances of protest in China from the eighteenth to the early-nineteenth centuries, Ho-fung Hung charts an evolution of Chinese dissent that stands apart from Western trends. Hung samples from mid-Qing petitions and humble plaints to the emperor. He revisits rallies, riots, market strikes, and other forms of contention rarely considered in previous studies. Drawing on new world history, which accommodates parallels and divergences between political-economic and cultural developments East and West, Hung shows how the centralization of political power and an expanding market, coupled with a persistent Confucianist orthodoxy, shaped protesters' strategies and appeals in Qing China. This unique form of mid-Qing protest combined a quest for justice and autonomy with a filial-loyal respect for the imperial center, and Hung's careful research ties this distinct characteristic to popular protest in China today. As Hung makes clear, the nature of these protests prove late imperial China was anything but a stagnant and tranquil empire before the West cracked it open. In fact, the origins of modern popular politics in China predate the 1911 Revolution. Hung's work ultimately establishes a framework others can use to compare popular protest among different cultural fabrics. His book fundamentally recasts the evolution of such acts worldwide.
Author : J. Unger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317455150
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)
Download or read book The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces written by J. Unger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across the great breadth of China were engulfed by demonstrations, which differed regionally in content and tone: the complaints and protest actions in prosperous Fuijan Province on the south China coast were somewhat different from those in Manchuria or inland Xi'an or the country towns of Hunan. The variety of the reactions is a barometer of the political and economic climate in contemporary China. In this book, Western China specialists who were on the spot that spring describe and analyze the upsurges of protest that erupted around them.
Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 0756547318
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (565 download)
Download or read book Tank Man written by Michael Burgan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses the iconic photo of a lone protester, Tank Man, stopping a row of tanks near Tiananmen Square during protests in 1989"--
Author : Liang Zhang
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 0786725478
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)
Download or read book The Tiananmen Papers written by Liang Zhang and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2008-08-06 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests written by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xin xing chu ban she (Beijing, China)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9787800850004
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)
Download or read book How Chinese View the Riot in Beijing written by Xin xing chu ban she (Beijing, China) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Teresa Wright
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9781509503568
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Popular Protest in China written by Teresa Wright and published by Polity. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular protest in China has been widespread and prevalent. Why do people protest and how are such demonstrations handled by the authorities? Could they ultimately imperil China’s political system? In this book, Teresa Wright analyzes the array of protests that have swept China in the post-Mao period. Exploring popular contention through a range of different groups – from farmers to factory workers, urban homeowners to environmentalists, nationalists to dissidents, ethnic minorities to Hong Kong residents, Wright shows that – with the exception of the latter – popular protest has achieved adequate government responses to the public’s most serious grievances. Yet Wright cautions that this may not last forever. For Chinese citizens that engage in protest often suffer serious emotional and physical costs. As a result, they have developed an unhealthy relationship with the regime. In this context, Xi Jinping’s recent efforts to restrict public expression may backfire – leading to an explosive dynamic that may threaten the political stability that China’s ruling elites so desire.
Author : Chaohua Wang
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9781788735476
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (354 download)
Download or read book The People and the Party written by Chaohua Wang and published by Verso. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Philip J Cunningham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442232870
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Tiananmen Moon written by Philip J Cunningham and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account of Beijing students desperately trying to secure the most coveted political real estate in China in the face of ever-more daunting government countermoves. Tiananmen Moon takes the reader into the thick of the 1989 protests while also following the parallel response of an unprepared but resourceful Western media. In this revised and expanded edition, Cunningham recounts rare vignettes about life in Tiananmen Square under student leadership, including previously unpublished material. There is an account of the Goddess of Democracy being unveiled, a whimsical trip to the countryside that ends up on a collision course with PLA troops readying for attack, the tale of a near riot when a reporter is mistaken for Gorbachev, the saga of a tearful leader who quits and dictates her last will and testament to the author, and a dramatic account of futile resistance in the face of an unforgiving crackdown. The book chronicles the opportunistic and awkward tango between naive student activists and jaded foreign journalists, in which, after a month of mutual courting, the tables turn and the now-savvy students watch the journalists, seduced and confused, run circles just trying to keep up. During the hunger strike under the light of a full moon, China bares its conflicted soul to the world, the mournful cry for reform amplified by the footsteps of a million peaceful marchers. This remarkable testament to a searing month that changed China forever serves as a witness to the rise and fall of an uprising, capturing the plaintive and lyrical beauty of a dream that endures and continues to haunt the country today.
Author : Anna Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780996640572
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (45 download)
Download or read book Inconvenient Memories written by Anna Wang and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inconvenient Memories is a rare and truthful memoir of a young woman's coming of age amid the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. In 1989, Anna Wang was one of a lucky few who worked for a Japanese company, Canon. She traveled each day between her grandmother's dilapidated commune-style apartment and an extravagant office just steps from Tiananmen Square. Her daily commute on Beijing's impossibly crowded buses brought into view the full spectrum of China's economic and social inequalities during the economic transition. When Tiananmen Protests broke out, her Japanese boss was concerned whether the protests would obstruct Canon's assembly plant in China, and she was sent to Tiananmen Square on a daily basis to take photos for her boss to analyze for evidence of turning tides. From the perspective as a member of the emerging middle class, she observed firsthand that Tiananmen Protests stemmed from Chinese people's longing for political freedom and their fear for the nascent market economy, an observation that readers have never come across from the various accounts of the historical events so far.
Author : Liao Yiwu
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982126663
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Bullets and Opium written by Liao Yiwu and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this “indispensable historical document” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Author : Eric Fish
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442248830
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (488 download)
Download or read book China's Millennials written by Eric Fish and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Fish provides compelling portraits of young Chinese as they struggle to cope with the country's wrenching socioeconomic and demographic transition after years of lofty expectations. He deftly captures their hopes, disillusionment, and rebellion in a system that is scrambling to keep them in line as they increasingly refuse to conform.
