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| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: June Fourth Jeremy Brown, 2021-04 In this vivid new social history of the Tiananmen protests, Beijing massacre, and nationwide crackdown of 1989, Jeremy Brown explores the key turning points of the crisis in China and shows how the massacre and its aftermath were far from inevitable. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Bullets and Opium Liao Yiwu, 2020-03-03 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society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this “indispensable historical document” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Sons Of Heaven Terrence Cheng, 2007-05-21 Sons of Heaven is an epic novel set against the backdrop of one of modern history's most haunting events: the Tiananmen Square Massacre. In June 1989, the world watched in horror as China's military was mobilized to suppress a student movement that stood for peaceful democracy. Hundreds were killed; others say thousands. No one knows for sure. But the image that remains most powerful is that of a lone young man, looking confused yet terribly brave, as he held his ground before a rolling line of tanks. Who was he, and why did he do what he did? No one has ever been able to determine his identity or fate. Within the pages of Sons of Heaven, in a stunning blend of history and fiction, Terrence Cheng has vividly created a life for this young hero and given him a voice. Cheng imagines the young man's life as he goes away to America to complete his education. He falls in love with a beautiful young American girl who opens up to him a free life filled with opportunity. When he returns to China he is embittered and disillusioned; only the potential for political change seems to revive him. Also unraveled is the story of the young man's older brother, an ardent member of the Red Army, who is ordered to capture his little brother. In the end, their political differences turn deadly. On one level this is a novel of history as played out in modern China, but first and foremost, it is about the universal ties of family and the difficult process of boys learning to become men. Also under scrutiny is the life and history of Deng Xiaoping, China's leader who is suspected of giving the final orders to turn the People's Army against its own people. What historical and political factors affected his decisions that fateful summer? Was Deng the monster that the world made him out to be? A revolving narrative of family, faith, and courage, Sons of Heaven braids the lives of peasants and soldiers, politicians and gods. It is a powerful novel of one of the most memorable and moving moments of our time. Praise for SONS OF HEAVEN This remarkably structured and textured debut epic seeks to attach a face to the mysterious man who, by stepping in front of the rolling army tanks, became the most recognizable symbol of the massacres. Cheng succeeds in his endeavor...a multifaceted and sophisticated portrait of the Chinese people is rendered. This is a rare find...This is not the first novel to center around Tiananmen, but it may be the best. -Publishers Weekly (starred review) [A] superb first novel...Sons of Heaven succeeds...because its focus is relentlessly personal, and moral. -San Francisco Chronicle Filled with carefully measured doses of history, romance, and adventure...Stylistically and thematically daring. -Miami Herald Terrence Cheng enters history in such a profound and provocative way-his retelling of the events in and around Tiananmen Square is subversive, lyrical, and full of control. Cheng is a painter and a cinematographer and a wordsmith all at once. -Colum McCann, author of Dancer [T]his brave, insightful and gifted writer...seeks to compassionately understand these fictional (and actual but fictionalized) characters' backgrounds, motivations and uncertainties to help readers grasp the moment from divergent perspectives. -Eugene Weekly Compelling...powerful...a first-class thriller set on the stage of world history that is hard to put down. -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Cinematic...powerful. -Atlanta Journal-Constitution Who cannot think of those days in June 1989 without recalling the image of an unknown protester facing off against a tank...thanks to Terrence Cheng's Sons of Heaven, we shall have an enduring reminder. -Denver Post An irresistible peek...into the human face of modern China. -USA Today The writing here is terse and often beautiful...this clash between pole |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Aftermath of the 1989 Tiananmen Crisis for Mainland China Bih-Jaw Lin, 2021-06-02 The 1989 Tiananmen crisis marked a crucial turning point for the People's Republic of China. The unprecedented demonstrations of popular dissent triggered the downfall of reformist premier Zhao Ziyang, who supported the students, and the rise of his conservative successor, Li Peng. The subsequent military crackdown on the demonstrators horrified the world and threatened the PRC with international isolation. In this book, distinguished scholars from Taiwan and the United States analyze the wide-ranging effects of the crisis on the role of ideology; the Party; the military; social and legal reform; economic reform; Taiwan and Hong Kong; and foreign relations. For anyone interested in China, and in particular the future of Communism, this volume will be essential reading. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: China Witness Xinran, 2010-04-20 China Witness is a remarkable work of oral history that lets us see the cultural upheavals of the past century through the eyes of the Chinese who lived through them. Xinran, acclaimed author of The Good Women of China, traveled across China seeking out the nation’s grandparents and great-grandparents, the men and women who experienced firsthand the tremendous changes of the modern era. Although many of them feared repercussions, they spoke with stunning candor about their hopes, fears, and struggles, and about what they witnessed: from the Long March to land reform, from Mao to marriage, from revolution to Westernization. In the same way that Studs Terkel’s Working and Tom Brokaw’s The Greatest Generation gave us the essence of very particular times, China Witness gives us the essence of modern China—a portrait more intimate, nuanced, and revelatory than any we have had before. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Tiananmen Square Massacre Wil Mara, 2013-09 The definitive history series! Strong narratives and eye-catching images tell the stories behind growth and development in the United States and around the world. Sidebars illustrate how history affects the present day Glossaries define important vocabulary specific to each book Timelines and maps increase readers' understanding of historical context Contains commentary about how the event has helped shape the world as we know it Additional content for further learning on this subject available at www.factsfornow.scholastic.com |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Tiananmen Square VIJAY. GOKHALE, 2021 '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 |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Do Not Say We Have Nothing Madeleine Thien, 2016-05-31 #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD • FINALIST FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION AWARD FOR FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE Do Not Say We Have Nothing is a breathtaking novel that tells the story of three musicians in China before, during and after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. With the ease and skill of a master storyteller, Thien takes us inside an extended family in China, showing us the lives of two successive generations--those who lived through Mao's Cultural Revolution in the mid-twentieth century; and the children of the survivors, who became the students protesting in Tiananmen Square in 1989, in one of the most important political moments of the past century. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Mandate of Heaven Orville Schell, 1995 America's foremost chronicler of contemporary China brilliantly illuminates the new power structure, economic initiatives, and cultural changes that have transformed China since the Tianamen Square massacre of 1989. A rich portrait, capturing a fascinating and perhaps fateful moment in China's long, turbulent history.--Arnold R. Isaacs, San Francisco Chronicle. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Tiananmen Papers Liang Zhang, Andrew James Nathan, Eugene Perry Link, 2002 Collects hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents to reveal the circumstances leading up to the Tiananmen Square events, including the division between the ruling elite, the rise of Jiang Zemin, and the declaring of martial law. Reprint. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Quelling the People Timothy Brook, 1998 Beskrivelse af massakren på Den Himmelske Freds Plads d. 3.-4. juni 1989 samt af de foregående uger |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Unlikely Partners Julian Gewirtz, 2017-01-02 With Deng Xiaoping’s blessing, Mao’s successors scoured the globe for fresh ideas to launch domestic prosperity and global economic power. Yet China’s government did not publicize its engagement with Western-style innovations, claiming instead that economic reinvention was the Party’s achievement alone. Julian Gewirtz sets forth the truer story. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Chaos Under Heaven Gordon Thomas, 1991 In Chaos Under Heaven, bestselling author Gordon Thomas takes readers inside the tragic drama of our time--China's aborted revolution. Thomas rope forced to make no public objection to China's harsh politics in exchange for their support in the Persian Gulf war. 16 pages of photographs. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: A Memoir of Misfortune Xiaokang Su, 2002-07-09 Su Xiaokang had faced calamity before: in 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he became the object of a government manhunt and was forced to flee China, leaving behind his wife and young son. Eventually his family was allowed to join him in exile in the United States, and he believed the worst was behind him. Then a terrible automobile accident left his wife, Fu Li, unable to move or speak. In this remarkably honest account, Su, who blamed himself for his family's disaster, writes wrenchingly of his inner torment and despair. He describes the pain of living in exile, his desperate search for a miracle cure for Fu Li, and his bemusement at his teenage son's increasing Americanization. Above all, Su's moving memoir invites us along on a deeply personal odyssey, as a man who had once been at the center of an international political drama dedicates himself to the far more demanding task of remaking an emotional world for his wife and son. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Overseas Chinese Democracy Movement Chen Jie, 2019-12-27 The overseas Chinese democracy movement (OCDM) is one of the world’s longest-running and most difficult exile political campaigns. This unique book is a rare and comprehensive account of its trajectory since its beginnings in the early 1980s, examining its shifting operational environment and the diversification of its activities, as well as characterizing its distinctive features in comparison to other exile movements. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Nonviolent Revolutions Sharon Erickson Nepstad, 2011-07-28 In the spring of 1989, Chinese workers and students captured global attention as they occupied Tiananmen Square, demanded political change, and were tragically suppressed by the Chinese army. Months later, East German civilians rose up nonviolently, brought down the Berlin Wall, and dismantled their regime. Although both movements used tactics of civil resistance, their outcomes were different. Why? In Nonviolent Revolutions, Sharon Erickson Nepstad examines these and other uprisings in Panama, Chile, Kenya, and the Philippines. Taking a comparative approach that includes both successful and failed cases of nonviolent resistance, Nepstad analyzes the effects of movements' strategies along with the counter-strategies regimes developed to retain power. She shows that a significant influence on revolutionary outcomes is security force defections, and explores the reasons why soldiers defect or remain loyal and the conditions that increase the likelihood of mutiny. She then examines the impact of international sanctions, finding that they can at times harm movements by generating new allies for authoritarian leaders or by shifting the locus of power from local civil resisters to international actors. Nonviolent Revolutions offers essential insights into the challenges that civil resisters face and elucidates why some of these movements failed. With a recent surge of popular uprisings across the Middle East, this book provides a valuable new understanding of the dynamics and potency of civil resistance and nonviolent revolt. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility Richard V. Ericson, Kevin D. Haggerty, 2006-01-01 Since the terrorist attacks of September 2001, surveillance has been put forward as the essential tool for the ?war on terror,? with new technologies and policies offering police and military operatives enhanced opportunities for monitoring suspect populations. The last few years have also seen the public?s consumer tastes become increasingly codified, with ?data mines? of demographic information such as postal codes and purchasing records. Additionally, surveillance has become a form of entertainment, with ?reality? shows becoming the dominant genre on network and cable television. In The New Politics of Surveillance and Visibility, editors Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson bring together leading experts to analyse how society is organized through surveillance systems, technologies, and practices. They demonstrate how the new political uses of surveillance make visible that which was previously unknown, blur the boundaries between public and private, rewrite the norms of privacy, create new forms of inclusion and exclusion, and alter processes of democratic accountability. This collection challenges conventional wisdom and advances new theoretical approaches through a series of studies of surveillance in policing, the military, commercial enterprises, mass media, and health sciences. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Troubled Dragon Pasquale De Marco, 2025-05-15 China's modern history is a tale of revolution, war, and transformation. From the fall of the Qing dynasty to the rise of the People's Republic, the Chinese people have endured immense suffering and achieved remarkable triumphs. This book tells the story of China's tumultuous journey through the 20th century, from the early 1900s to the present day. It begins with an examination of the fall of the Qing dynasty and the rise of regional warlords, setting the stage for the emergence of the Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The book then turns to the Japanese invasion of China in the 1930s and 1940s, a conflict that claimed the lives of millions of Chinese people and ultimately led to the defeat of Japan and the end of World War II. However, the war also left China deeply divided, and the KMT and CCP soon found themselves engaged in a civil war for control of the country. The Chinese Civil War ended in 1949 with the victory of the CCP, and Mao Zedong proclaimed the founding of the People's Republic of China. The CCP then embarked on a series of radical social and economic reforms, including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, which had a devastating impact on the Chinese people. In the late 1970s, Deng Xiaoping came to power and introduced a series of economic reforms that transformed China into one of the world's leading economic powers. However, these reforms also led to a widening gap between rich and poor and a rise in social inequality. The book concludes with a discussion of China's current challenges, including economic sustainability, environmental degradation, and the need for political reform. **The Troubled Dragon** is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand China's role in the world today. It is a comprehensive and engaging account of China's modern history, told through the lens of the Chinese people who lived through it. If you like this book, write a review on google books! |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Legacy of Tiananmen James A. R. Miles, 1996 From talking to the powerful in Beijing and the peasants in the countryside, an experienced journalist interprets China and its post-Deng future |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: A Free Life Ha Jin, 2007-10-30 A New York Times Notable Book One of the Best Books of the Year: Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun-Times, Entertainment Weekly, Slate In A Free Life, Ha Jin follows the Wu family — father Nan, mother Pingping, and son Taotao — as they sever their ties with China in the aftermath of the 1989 massacre at Tiananmen Square and begin a new life in the United States. As Nan takes on a number of menial jobs, eventually operating a restaurant with Pingping, he struggles to adapt to the American way of life and to hold his family together, even as he pines for a woman he loved and lost in his youth. Ha Jin's prodigious talents are in full force as he brilliantly brings to life the struggles and successes of the contemporary immigrant experience. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: China Goes Global David Shambaugh, 2013-03-07 Eminent China scholar David Shambaugh's China Goes Global is the sweeping synthesis of that nation's growing prominence on the world stage that we have been waiting for. Thirty years ago, China's role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor. Its military was extremely weak, and it had little geostrategic power. As Shambaugh charts, though, China's expanding economic power has allowed it extend its reach and influence virtually everywhere. After establishing the main precondition—the astounding growth of the Chinese economy—Shambaugh turns his focus to the manifestations of China's global ambitions: its growing military power, characterized best by its current pursuit of a blue-water navy; its increasing cultural influence (i.e., soft power); and its new prominence in global governance institutions like the G-20. He is no alarmist, however. Rather, he will draw on his extremely deep knowledge of the subject to offer a balanced and well reasoned account of where China is now and where he thinks it is headed. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Fat Years Chan Koonchung, 2012-01-10 Banned in China, this controversial and politically charged novel tells the story of the search for an entire month erased from official Chinese history. Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one could care less—except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that have possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn—not only about their leaders, but also about their own people—stuns them to the core. It is a message that will astound the world. A kind of Brave New World reflecting the China of our times, The Fat Years is a complex novel of ideas that reveals all too chillingly the machinations of the postmodern totalitarian state, and sets in sharp relief the importance of remembering the past to protect the future. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Tiananmen Moon Philip J. Cunningham, 2010 A firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Takes the reader into the thick of the 1989 protests while also following the parallel response of an unprepared but resourceful Western media. Recounts rare vignettes about life in Tiananmen Square under student leadership, including 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 author 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. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China Merle Goldman, 1994 When they found their efforts had produced negligible results, they tried to introduce new institutions such as a free press, a legislature with real power, the rule of law, and truly competitive elections. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Beijing Spring, 1989 Michel Oksenberg, Lawrence R. Sullivan, Marc Lambert, 1990-11-08 A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are arranged chronologically, starting in early March and ending in late June. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: China Bobbie Kalman, 2008 City life and modernization. The construction boom. One-child family updates and how better economic situations are changing social rules. The status of disputed territories and the government's policies on religions they feel are a threat. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Black Hands of Beijing George Black, Robin Munro, 1993-05-03 In China, the Black Hands are those people considered the principal threats to China's totalitarian regime. In the most vivid and revealing book yet on the Chinese democracy movement, the personal stories of three of the main leaders of the movement cast a glaring light on the nature of the Communist regime and the consequences of open protet against it. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Risk and Redemption Arthur Kent, 1997 Arthur Kent is one of the best of our breed. Walter Cronkite has said -- & this book proves it. From deadly battlefields to boardroom clashes, RISK & REDEMPTION describes in gripping detail the challenges award-winning journalist Kent & other foreign correspondents face each day. Kent first takes you behind the scenes reporting events such as the war in Afghanistan, Tiananmen Square & the Persian Gulf War, where he was nicknamed the SCUD-Stud for his live television reporting from Saudi Arabia. Then in one of the most controversial exposes in the history of the medium, Kent reveals the shocking mismanagement that led him to sue NBC management for $25 million. After eighteen months of litigation, Kent won an unprecedented settlement package from NBC, prompting one media specialist to comment: I cannot remember a case with such a public display of retraction. RISK & REDEMPTION is well-written, fast-paced & heartening. Ingram Book Company, 800-937-8000, Baker & Taylor, 400-775-1100 or Bookazine, 800-221-8112. For more information, contact Skywriter Communications, P.O. Box 252038, Los Angeles, CA 90025. 310-442-9635, FAX: 310-442-9659. E-mail: skyscribe@earthlink.net. Website: www.skyscribe.com. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Chaos Under Heaven Gordon Thomas, 2014-07-01 The story behind the struggle for democracy in China and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, still the subject of widespread government censorship efforts. The first complete book on the Tiananmen Square tragedy reveals how diplomats from the United States, Britain, and Europe knew exact details of the impending massacre of the students in Tiananmen. In a vivid narrative window into secret meetings in the Oval Office, CIA headquarters, and the private compound of China’s leaders, more than one hundred interviewees contribute to an untold story. Chaos Under Heaven reveals America and the West’s betrayal of the children of China, who, for a brief moment in history, brought democracy to their homeland. In this stunning book, Gordon Thomas takes readers inside the tragic drama of those fifty-five days when the young people of China, crying out for freedom, rebelled against the old men of the Long March. At stake were America’s and the world’s roles in the future of China. Once castigated by Karl Marx as a “carefully preserved mummy in a hermetically sealed coffin,” China has become the superpower of the Pacific. As the students’ demand for democracy escalated, the Western nations realized that their carefully cultivated ambitions for China were at risk. Their goal was to preserve the status quo. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Tiananmen Diary Harrison Evans Salisbury, 1989 Provides a firsthand account of the massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Consequences of the Peace Alan Sharp, 2015-02-15 The Versailles Settlement, at the time of its creation a vital part of the Paris Peace Conference, suffers today from a poor reputation: despite its lofty aim to settle the world’s affairs at a stroke, it is widely considered to have paved the way for a second major global conflict within a generation. Woodrow Wilson’s controversial principle of self-determination amplified political complexities in the Balkans, and the war and its settlement bear significant responsibility for boundaries and related conflicts in today’s Middle East. After almost a century, the settlement still casts a long shadow. This revised and updated edition of The Consequences of the Peace sets the ramifications of the Paris Peace treaties—for good or ill—within a long-term context. Alan Sharp presents new materials in order to argue that the responsibility for Europe’s continuing interwar instability cannot be wholly attributed to the peacemakers of 1919–23. Marking the centenary of World War I and the approaching centenary of the Peace Conference itself, this book is a clear and concise guide to the global legacy of the Versailles Settlement. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Middle Kingdom Andrea Barrett, 1992-03 Barrett's two previous novels won her comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. The Middle Kingdom--now available in trade paper--is the story of a dutiful wife in an unhappy marriage who accompanies her husband on a business trip to China. But once there she falls out of love with her husband and into love with the country and its culture. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Secret Wars Gordon Thomas, 2024-03-26 Gordon Thomas has established himself as a leading expert on the intelligence community. He returns here on the one hundredth anniversaries of Britain's Security and Secret Intelligence Services to provide the definitive history of the famed MI5 and MI6. These agencies rank as two of the oldest and most powerful in the world, and Thomas's wide-sweeping history chronicles a century of both triumphs and failures. He recounts the roles that British intelligence played in the Allied victory in World War II; the postwar treachery of Great Britain's own agents; the defection of Soviet agents and the intricate process of handling them; the often frigid relationship that both agencies have had with the CIA, European spy services, and the Mossad; the cooperation between the British and Americans in the search for Osama bin Laden; and the ways in which MI5 and MI6 have fought biological warfare espionage and space terrorism. All told, this is the story of two agencies led by men---and women---who are enigmatic, eccentric, and controversial, and who ruthlessly control their spies. Based on prodigious research and interviews with significant players from inside the British intelligence community, this is a rich and even delicious history packed with intrigue and information that only the author could have attained. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Critical Readings on the Communist Party of China (4 Vols. Set) Kjeld Erik Brodsgaard, 2016-12-12 The Chinese Communist Party (CCP), with nearly 90 million members, is the largest ruling political party in the world. Its power and influence reach into every corner of state, society and economy in China. Given the CCP’s omnipresence, in-depth knowledge of how the CCP is organised and managed and how it will likely evolve is of paramount importance and is a basic prerequisite for understanding China’s rise. By bringing together the best scholarship on the CCP, covering areas such as organisation, cadre management, recruitment and training, ideology and propaganda, factions and elites, reform and adaptation, corruption and law, this collection provides a key to open the black box of Chinese politics. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: The Tiananmen Square Massacre Wil Mara, 2014-02-21 Describes the events of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989, and covers economic reform in China, the beginnings of a pro-democracy movement, and how the Chinese government dealt with the aftermath of the massacre. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Beijing Lillian M. Li, Alison Dray-Novey, Haili Kong, 2008-04-29 Chronicles the history of Beijing from its earliest days to the twenty-first century, discussing how economic growth as well as preparations for the 2008 Olympics have affected the city. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Transitions and Non-Transitions from Communism Steven Saxonberg, 2013-02-14 A unique comparative study examining why some communist regimes remain in power, whilst others have fallen. |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Beijing Coma Ma Jian, 2013-07-31 REPUBLISHED ON THE 30th ANNIVERSARY OF THE TIANANMEN MASSACRE, WITH A NEW AFTERWORD FROM THE AUTHOR AND A NEW COVER BY AI WEIWEI Beijing Coma is Ma Jian’s masterpiece. Spiked with dark wit, poetic beauty and deep rage, it takes the life, and near-death, of one young student to create a dazzling and excoriating novel about contemporary China ‘Monumental’ Guardian ‘A landmark work of fiction’ Daily Telegraph ‘A modern literary masterpiece’ Sunday Express Dai Wei lies in his bedroom, a prisoner in his body, after he was shot in the head at the Tiananmen Square protest ten years earlier and left in a coma. As his mother tends to him, and his friends bring news of their lives in an almost unrecognisable China, Dai Wei escapes into his memories, weaving together the events that took him from his harsh childhood in the last years of the Cultural Revolution to his student days at Beijing University. As the minute-by-minute chronicling of the lead-up to his shooting becomes ever more intense, the reader is caught in a gripping, emotional journey where the boundaries between life and death are increasingly blurred. ‘Beijing Coma is one of the finest and most important novels to have been written in this century’ Chris Patten |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Human Rights and Political Developments in China United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Human Rights and International Organizations, 1990 |
| tiananmen square massacre aftermath: Summer of Betrayal Ying Hong, 1999 At dawn on the June morning in 1989 following the brutal repression of student demonstrations in Beijing, a young poet flees the bullets, tanks, and soldiers, trying desperately to get back to the flat she shares with her lover. When she discovers him in bed with his estranged wife, she must strike out again - and alone - into the maelstrom of terror and risk that Beijing has become. In the ensuing months, as she is all but overwhelmed by painful memories of the past and by the turmoil of the present, she goes through a kind of sea change: sexual freedom and erotic liberation seem to be the only freedoms left to her, but these, too, may lead to betrayal, and she must find her bearings on her own. This remarkable first novel by a striking young Chinese author is a lyrical, outspoken account of a major turning point in Chinese history, and a cri de coeur from the generation that instigated the bold initiatives of 1989 and suffered most from the cruelties that followed. Summer of Betrayal was published in Taiwan in 1992; though banned in China, it circulated widely there. This is its first publication in the West. |
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia
After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on …
Tiananmen Square incident | Massacre, Summary, Details,
Apr 20, 2025 · The Tiananmen Square incident was a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on June 3–4 with a government crackdown on …
On the 36th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Jun 3, 2025 · The CCP responded with a brutal crackdown, sending the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to open fire in an attempt to extinguish the pro-democracy sentiments of unarmed …
Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? - BBC
On 3 to 4 June, troops began to move towards Tiananmen Square, opening fire, crushing and arresting protesters to regain control of the area.
Tiananmen Square Down the Chinese Memory Hole
1 day ago · Tiananmen Square Down the Chinese Memory Hole Not a word about the massacre is mentioned, even in Hong Kong, and the Chinese are less free today than they were in 1989. …
Timeline: What Led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Jun 3, 2012 · In Tiananmen Square, the atmosphere is jubilant, but at government headquarters, Deng Xiaoping is devising a new offensive to end the protest.
What is the Tiananmen crackdown? - Amnesty International
May 30, 2025 · On 4 June 1989, Chinese troops opened fire on students and workers who had been peacefully protesting for political reforms in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Unfinished Resistance: The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
Apr 30, 2025 · The first whispers of the Tiananmen Square protests began in April 1989 when Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, died of a heart …
The Tiananmen Square Massacre - Background and Causes
Jun 2, 2008 · In 1989, the Chinese government cracked down on protests in Tiananmen Square killing between 250 and 7,000 people in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Hong Kong curbs Tiananmen anniversary, as US and Taiwan say …
Jun 4, 2025 · Security was tight in Hong Kong and activists faced pressure from police on the 36th anniversary of China's bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in …
1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre - Wikipedia
After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on …
Tiananmen Square incident | Massacre, Summary, Details,
Apr 20, 2025 · The Tiananmen Square incident was a series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on June 3–4 with a government crackdown on …
On the 36th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Jun 3, 2025 · The CCP responded with a brutal crackdown, sending the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) to open fire in an attempt to extinguish the pro-democracy sentiments of unarmed …
Tiananmen Square: What happened in the protests of 1989? - BBC
On 3 to 4 June, troops began to move towards Tiananmen Square, opening fire, crushing and arresting protesters to regain control of the area.
Tiananmen Square Down the Chinese Memory Hole
1 day ago · Tiananmen Square Down the Chinese Memory Hole Not a word about the massacre is mentioned, even in Hong Kong, and the Chinese are less free today than they were in 1989. …
Timeline: What Led to the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Jun 3, 2012 · In Tiananmen Square, the atmosphere is jubilant, but at government headquarters, Deng Xiaoping is devising a new offensive to end the protest.
What is the Tiananmen crackdown? - Amnesty International
May 30, 2025 · On 4 June 1989, Chinese troops opened fire on students and workers who had been peacefully protesting for political reforms in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square.
Unfinished Resistance: The 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests
Apr 30, 2025 · The first whispers of the Tiananmen Square protests began in April 1989 when Hu Yaobang, the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, died of a heart …
The Tiananmen Square Massacre - Background and Causes
Jun 2, 2008 · In 1989, the Chinese government cracked down on protests in Tiananmen Square killing between 250 and 7,000 people in the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
Hong Kong curbs Tiananmen anniversary, as US and Taiwan say …
Jun 4, 2025 · Security was tight in Hong Kong and activists faced pressure from police on the 36th anniversary of China's bloody 1989 crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen …
