Tiananmen Square Protests

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 : Marcia Amidon Lüsted
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Jeff Hay
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780737751307

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The Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989 by Jeff Hay Pdf

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 : Andrew Langley
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : China
ISBN : 9780756541019

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Tiananmen Square by Andrew Langley Pdf

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

Author : United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : China
ISBN : PURD:32754081169470

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The 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Protests by United States. Congressional-Executive Commission on China Pdf

Author : Jeremy Brown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107042070

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June Fourth by Jeremy Brown Pdf

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.

Author : Michael Burgan
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780756547318

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Tank Man by Michael Burgan Pdf

"Discusses the iconic photo of a lone protester, Tank Man, stopping a row of tanks near Tiananmen Square during protests in 1989"--

Author : Zhang Boli
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780743437790

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Escape From China by Zhang Boli Pdf

Who can forget the images, telecast worldwide, of brave Chinese students facing down tanks in Tiananmen Square as they took on their Communist government? After a two-week standoff in 1989, military forces suppressed the revolt, killing many students and issuing arrest warrants for top student leaders, including Zhang Boli. After two years as a fugitive, Zhang -- the only leader to elude capture -- knew that he must bid his beloved country, as well as his wife and baby daughter, farewell. Traveling across the frozen terrain of the former Soviet Union, where peasants rescued him, and through the deserted lands of China's precarious borders, Zhang had only his extraordinary will to propel him toward freedom. As told in Escape from China -- a work of great historical resonance -- his story will renew your faith in the human spirit.

Author : James A. R. Miles
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0472084518

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The Legacy of Tiananmen by James A. R. Miles Pdf

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

Author : J. Unger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317455158

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The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces by J. Unger Pdf

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 : Zhou He
Publisher : Nova Biomedical Books
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822023631468

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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 : Lee Feigon
Publisher : Ivan R. Dee Publisher
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015031597282

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China Rising by Lee Feigon Pdf

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 : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : China
ISBN : MINN:31951D03647130P

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Tragic Anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square Protests and Massacre by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations Pdf

Author : Chaohua Wang
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781788735490

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The People and the Party by Chaohua Wang Pdf

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 : Chu-yuan Cheng
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429718991

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Behind The Tiananmen Massacre by Chu-yuan Cheng Pdf

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.