Chinas Search For Democracy The Students And Mass Movement Of 1989

Author : Suzanne Ogden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315489635
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Search for Democracy: The Students and Mass Movement of 1989 written by Suzanne Ogden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are the core eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement declarations, handbills, and other documents. In their introductions to the material, the editors address the political economy of the democracy movement, the evolving concept of democracy during the movement, the movement's contribution to China becoming a civil society, and the changing view of the Chinese Communist Party by students, intellectuals, workers and others, as the crisis unfolded.

Author : Suzanne Ogden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China's Search for Democracy written by Suzanne Ogden and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Minzhu Han
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122952X
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cries For Democracy written by Minzhu Han and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement--flyers, "big-character" posters, "small-character" posters, handbills, poems, articles from nonofficial newspapers and journals, government statements, and transcriptions of tapes. Linked by a commentary setting the documents in the context of the movement's history and of Chinese social and political life, these expressions--indeed, cries--of the participants in the passionate demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities powerfully convey the atmosphere of this extraordinary protest. In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989. The editors believe that the underlying motivations, emotions, and aspirations of the prodemocracy demonstrators can best be communicated to those outside China by translations that aim as much as possible to capture the original words, tones, and rhythms of the Chinese people. This book is a unique collection of political and personal documents, and it is also a dramatic presentation of the movement. The lucid commentary, the arrangement of selections in approximate chronological order, and the use of photographs combine to create a vivid and flowing narrative. Beginning with the student discontent and restlessness that pervaded Chinese campuses in the winter of 1989, and continuing through to the violent suppression of the Democracy Movement in June with the bloody army takeover of Tiananmen Square and sweeping arrests of activists, the story shows how moderate demands on the part of students grew into a mass antigovernment protest and resistance to martial law in Beijing. Highlighting the demands and goals of the protesters and the attitude of the students toward the Chinese Communist Party, the work movingly evokes the determination, idealism, courage, and flashes of humor that were the essence of this unforgettable spring.

Author : J. Unger
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317455150
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pro-democracy Protests in China written by J. Unger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 256 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 : Tony Saich
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131548935X
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chinese People's Movement written by Tony Saich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pro-democracy demonstrations of April-May 1989 heralded the awakening of public opinion in urban China; the brutal suppression in June revealed a Communist Party leadership severely out of touch with its own society and its aspirations. The contributors to this timely book, a number of whom witnessed the events described, place these dramatic events within the broader context of China's developmental experience. Rather than an instant reaction and description, however, this book grows out of the ongoing research interests and keen onservational skills of the contributors. Therefore it provides as historical, developmental, societal, cultural, and political context for the tragic event in terms of their antecedents, ramifications, and impact on the history of the Chinese People's movement.

Author : Elaine Yee-man Chan
Publisher : UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The China Democracy Movement and Tiananmen Incident written by Elaine Yee-man Chan and published by UCLA Asian Pacific Monograph Series. This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jia Hao
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780962636912
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democracy Movement of 1989 and China's Future written by Jia Hao and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : Kwang Hwa Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
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Download or read book The Peking Massacre written by and published by Kwang Hwa Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Radio Free Asia
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 1632180014
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering Tiananmen written by Radio Free Asia and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2014-05-02 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through pictures and video, we explore the evolution of a pro-democracy movement that began peacefully but ended in tragedy on the night of June 3-4, 1989. This book marks the 24th anniversary of the Chinese army crackdown on student demonstrators and the citizens who supported them.

Author : Minzhu Han
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691031460
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cries for Democracy written by Minzhu Han and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement--flyers, "big-character" posters, "small-character" posters, handbills, poems, articles from nonofficial newspapers and journals, government statements, and transcriptions of tapes. Linked by a commentary setting the documents in the context of the movement's history and of Chinese social and political life, these expressions--indeed, cries--of the participants in the passionate demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities powerfully convey the atmosphere of this extraordinary protest. In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989. The editors believe that the underlying motivations, emotions, and aspirations of the prodemocracy demonstrators can best be communicated to those outside China by translations that aim as much as possible to capture the original words, tones, and rhythms of the Chinese people. This book is a unique collection of political and personal documents, and it is also a dramatic presentation of the movement. The lucid commentary, the arrangement of selections in approximate chronological order, and the use of photographs combine to create a vivid and flowing narrative. Beginning with the student discontent and restlessness that pervaded Chinese campuses in the winter of 1989, and continuing through to the violent suppression of the Democracy Movement in June with the bloody army takeover of Tiananmen Square and sweeping arrests of activists, the story shows how moderate demands on the part of students grew into a mass antigovernment protest and resistance to martial law in Beijing. Highlighting the demands and goals of the protesters and the attitude of the students toward the Chinese Communist Party, the work movingly evokes the determination, idealism, courage, and flashes of humor that were the essence of this unforgettable spring.