| Description |
1 online resource (523 pages) |
| Series |
Asian Voices |
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Asian voices.
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| Contents |
Contents -- Tiananmen: Trying to Remember, Trying to Forget -- Preface -- PART I: NEW MOON -- MAY 3 (AM): Blue Skies over Tiananmen -- MAY 3 (PM): In Search of the Real China -- MAY 4 (AM): The New May Fourth Spirit -- MAY 4 (PM): Running with Rebels -- MAY 10 (AM): Ten Thousand Bicycles -- MAY 10 (PM): People�s Daily -- PART II: WAXING MOON -- MAY 13 (AM): Democracy Walls -- MAY 13 (PM): Hunger Strike -- MAY 14 (AM): Sun and Stars -- MAY 14 (PM): Overnight Vigil -- MAY 15 (AM): Food for Fasters -- MAY 15 (PM): Looking for Gorbachev |
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MAY 16: Working-Class HeroesMAY 17: Rising Tide of Rebellion -- MAY 18 (AM): Water Strike -- MAY 18 (PM): Criminal Elements -- MAY 19 (AM): The New Red Guards -- MAY 19 (PM): Breaking the Fast -- PART III: WANING MOON -- MAY 20: Martial Law -- MAY 22: Provincial Vagabonds -- MAY 23: Egg on the Face of Mao -- MAY 24: Tiananmen Headquarters -- MAY 26: Radical Camp -- MAY 27: BBC Does the Countryside -- MAY 28: Last Will and Testament -- MAY 28: Clandestine Interview -- MAY 28: Going Underground -- MAY 28: Midnight Rendezvous -- MAY 29: The Goddess |
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PART IV: NO MOONJUNE 2 (Night): Troops Are Coming -- JUNE 3 (Morning): Behind the Great Hall -- JUNE 3 (Evening): Point of No Return -- JUNE 3 (Night): Of Tanks and Men -- JUNE 3�4: Eve of Destruction -- JUNE 4: The Sky Is Crying -- Afterword -- About the Author |
| Summary |
This compelling book, now in a revised and expanded anniversary edition, provides a vivid first-hand account of the student demonstrations and violent crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account of Beijing students desperately trying to secure the most coveted political real estate in China in the face of ever-more daunting government countermoves. He brings to life the story of the demonstrations, from the tentative early marches |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
College students -- China -- Beijing -- Biography
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Student movements -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
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College students.
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Student movements.
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| SUBJECT |
China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004135
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| Subject |
China.
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China -- Beijing.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442232877 |
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1442232870 |
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