[PDF] The Power Of Tiananmen eBook

Author : Dingxin Zhao
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 37,86 MB
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226982629

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In the spring of 1989 over 100,000 students in Beijing initiated the largest student revolt in human history. Television screens across the world filled with searing images from Tiananmen Square of protesters thronging the streets, massive hunger strikes, tanks set ablaze, and survivors tending to the dead and wounded after a swift and brutal government crackdown. Dingxin Zhao's award-winning The Power of Tiananmen is the definitive treatment of these historic events. Along with grassroots tales and interviews with the young men and women who launched the demonstrations, Zhao carries out a penetrating analysis of the many parallel changes in China's state-society relations during the 1980s. Such changes prepared an alienated academy, gave rise to ecology-based student mobilization, restricted government policy choices, and shaped student emotions and public opinion, all of which, Zhao argues, account for the tragic events in Tiananmen.

Author : Eddie Cheng
Publisher : Eddie Cheng
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0982320302

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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 : Wei Ling Chua
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,9 MB
Release : 2014
Category : China
ISBN : 9781494326593

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The so-called Tiananmen Square "Massacre" is one of the most misleading events the US government and the Western media have used to demonize the Chinese government each and every year since 1989. There was ample silent evidence in the images produced by the Western media that told the story of a highly restrained and caring Chinese government facing a protest similar to those in the West at various stages of their economic development. However, the West and anti-communist forces had capitalized on the situation in 1989 to fuel the public's anger, intending to overthrow a good government. How the Western media lied about a massacre given the silent evidence that suggests otherwise, and the moral implications of Western powers making use of common pain and dissatisfaction within an economic cycle of a society to justify the overthrowing of governments across the globe are issues that this book is structured to explore.

Author : Human Rights in China (Organization)
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 16,46 MB
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN :

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Eyewitness account of the Tiananmen massacre where the world watched in horror as government troops opened fire on thousands of democracy campaigners in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Author : Liang Zhang
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 2008-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0786725478

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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 : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 27,6 MB
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 0199347700

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"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review

Author : James A. R. Miles
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472084517

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From talking to the powerful in Beijing and the peasants in the countryside, an experienced journalist interprets China and its post-Deng future

Author : Chu-yuan Cheng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 29,4 MB
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429718993

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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 : Vijay Gokhale
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 22,41 MB
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9354225365

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'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 claimed that Chinese troops had fired into the crowds with several hundred casualties.' More than three decades later, the Tiananmen Square incident refuses to be forgotten. The events that occurred in the summer of 1989 would not only set the course for China's politics but would also re-define its relationship with the world. China's message was clear: it remained committed to market-oriented reform, but it would not tolerate any challenge to the supremacy of the Chinese Communist Party. In return for economic prosperity, the Chinese have surrendered some rights to the state. A democratic future seems far away. Vijay Gokhale, then a young diplomat serving in Beijing, was a witness to the drama that unfolded in Tiananmen Square. This unique account brings an Indian perspective on an event in China's history that the Chinese government has been eager to have the world forget.