The General Of Tiananmen Square

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487010225

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The General of Tiananmen Square by Ian Hamilton Pdf

Ava Lee squares off against the Chinese government over a controversial film depicting the infamous Tiananmen Square Massacre in the latest thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton. Ava Lee is in the French Riviera with Pang Fai and Lau Lau for the long-awaited premiere of Tiananmen at the Cannes Film Festival. As the film collects numerous awards and international acclaim, a distribution deal with a major American firm is arranged by the film’s producer, Chen. When several months go by with no word from the Americans, Chen decides to travel to Los Angeles to determine what is preventing the film’s release. En route from his home in Bangkok, Chen goes missing. Ava is called in to investigate and soon learns that Chen is being held by the Thai immigration services on orders of the Chinese government, which is unhappy with the film’s depiction of the infamous massacre at Tiananmen Square and seeks to punish those responsible for its production. To protect her investment, Ava must find a way for Tiananmen to be released, while keeping secret her own involvement in the film’s creation and ensuring her friends are kept safe from retribution. It's a difficult balancing act, perhaps the most difficult of her life — the stakes have never been higher nor has failure been more costly.

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : China
ISBN : 1038425190

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The General of Tiananmen Square by Ian Hamilton Pdf

"Ava Lee is in the French Riviera with Pang Fai and Lau Lau for the long-awaited premiere of Tiananmen at the Cannes Film Festival. As the film wins numerous awards and international acclaim, a distribution deal with a major American firm is arranged by the film's producer, Chen. When several months go by with no word from the Americans, Chen decides to travel to Los Angeles to determine what is preventing the film's release. En route from his home in Bangkok, Chen goes missing. Ava is called in to investigate and soon learns that Chen is being held by the Thai Immigration Services on orders of the Chinese government, which is unhappy with the film's depiction of the infamous massacre at Tiananmen Square. Using its growing power and influence, the Chinese government seeks to block the film's distribution and punish those responsible for its production. To protect her investment, Ava must find a way for Tiananmen to be released, while keeping secret her own involvement in the film's creation and ensuring that her friends are kept safe from retribution. It is a difficult balancing act, perhaps the most difficult of her life, as the stakes have never been higher nor has failure been more costly."--

Author : Michel Cormier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0864929021

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The Legacy of Tiananmen Square by Michel Cormier Pdf

Examines the struggle to bring democracy to China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Author : Vijay Gokhale
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789354225369

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Tiananmen Square by Vijay Gokhale Pdf

'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.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000032137361

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Was There a Tiananmen Massacre? by United States. Congress. House. Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on International Operations and Human Rights Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : China
ISBN : 0750244151

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Tiananmen Square by Anonim Pdf

This title offers a dramatic account of the lead up to the student demonstration in Tiananmen Square on 4th June 1989 and its aftermath. Ages 12+.

Author : Ian Hamilton
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781487010164

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The Sultan of Sarawak by Ian Hamilton Pdf

Ava Lee clashes with the most powerful family in Malaysian Borneo in this exhilarating new thriller from bestselling author Ian Hamilton. After a warehouse owned by the Three Sisters is destroyed under suspicious circumstances, Ava Lee travels to the Malaysian province of Sarawak to investigate. She quickly discovers that the powerful Chong family has a political and economic stranglehold on the province and is likely responsible for the warehouse. As Ava digs deeper into the Chongs, she is shocked to learn of their billion-dollar illegal logging operation in Sarawak, which has decimated the Bornean rainforest and threatens the existence of the Penan — a nomadic Indigenous people who have lived in the region for centuries. Determined to avenge the harm caused by the Chongs and to put an end to their dominion over Sarawak, Ava follows a money trail that leads back to the Hong Kong real estate market. There, Ava and Sonny Kwok embark on a campaign of terror against the Chong family — attacking their holdings and bank accounts. Can Ava attain the vengeance she seeks? Or will the powerful Chong family triumph once again?

Author : Louisa Lim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9780199347704

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The People's Republic of Amnesia by Louisa Lim Pdf

An NPR correspondent explains how the Tiananmen Square massacre changed China, and how China changed the events of that day by rewriting its own history.

Author : Wei Ling Chua
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : China
ISBN : 1494326590

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Tiananmen Square "Massacre"? by Wei Ling Chua Pdf

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 : Dingxin Zhao
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226982625

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The Power of Tiananmen by Dingxin Zhao Pdf

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 : Zhou He
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040648639

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Mass Media and Tiananmen Square by Zhou He Pdf

What took place Tiananmen Square was a dramatic conflict. And it was, to a great extent, a media-aided conflict. Without the active involvement of both the Chinese national news media and the international news media, the conflict could never have reached such a magnitude and cast such an extensive impact on the Chinese people and on people around the world. This book adopts a theoretical framework that combines the following lines: the general social environment in which the conflict occurred and the news media operated; the societal, ideological, organisational and professional factors that influenced the news media's operations; and the interaction between the news media and the conflict. This book concentrates on the following areas to examine the effects of the news media on the movement: 1) the goals, strategies and discourse of the movement; 2) legitimisation or de-legitimisation of the movement; 3) information provision; 4) messages as signals for actions; and 5) people's attitudes.

Author : Morgan Chua
Publisher : Epigram Books
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9789810779283

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Tiananmen by Morgan Chua Pdf

The events that took place at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China on 4 June 1989 attracted international attention and sparked outrage at the Chinese government’s military advance on student demonstrators. Twenty-five years on, a new generation of Chinese has grown up in a country that continues to grapple with issues of political liberalisation, democracy and censorship. First published in 1989, acclaimed former Far Eastern Economic Review editorial cartoonist Morgan Chua’s Tiananmen takes an emotional yet incisive look at the aftermath of the 4 June protests and the international response it provoked. This updated edition commemorates the 25th anniversary of this watershed incident with new cartoons and a look at where the key figures involved then, are today.

Author : Scott Simmie,Bob Nixon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001606099

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Tiananmen Square by Scott Simmie,Bob Nixon Pdf

Author : Marcia Amidon Lüsted
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : China
ISBN : 1616136863

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Tiananmen Square Protests by Marcia Amidon Lüsted Pdf

Examines the events and aftermath of the massacre by the Chinese army of protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Author : Lisa Zhang Wharton
Publisher : Fibpub.com LLC
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : China
ISBN : 0615594603

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Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square by Lisa Zhang Wharton Pdf

"Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square" is a novel based on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Pro-democracy movement. The novel follows a young woman, Baiyun, a junior in college, trying to reconcile her upbringing while in the midst of the rising political movement in Beijing, China. Baiyun grew up in a strange and cold household: her mother, Meiling, brought her many young lovers to their home while Baiyun was a small child. Often, Baiyun could hear her sad father, drunk and listening by the door. In order to cope with her dysfunctional family, Baiyun worked as hard as she could, eventually getting herself in the prestigious Beijing University. But even away from her parent's madness, she was unable to escape her haunting memories. A distraction was right outside her dorm room window. Baiyun joined the Pro-democracy movement to vent her frustrations. While protesting, she met the man of her dreams, Dagong, a handsome and charismatic factory technician who was orphaned at birth and lost his only relative during the Cultural Revolution. But even Dagong couldn't fully take Baiyun away: his face reminded her of one of her mother's lovers, both attracting her and drawing her back. Eventually Baiyun and Dagong were bonded by their troubled pasts. Amidst the backdrop of the escalating unrest on the streets, they faced violence and were eventually made to question their true loyalties, especially after Baiyun had discovered that Dagong was married with a son. "Last Kiss in Tiananmen Square" is a coming-of age story set against the historic and devastating era in Chinese history. With the cultural significance and family bonds of "The Kite Runner," this book explores the way in which one's past is never forgotten.