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The power of Tiananmen [electronic resource] : state-society relations and the 1989 Beijing student movement / Dingxin Zhao.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 433 p.) : ill., mapsISBN:
  • 9780226982625 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226982629 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power of Tiananmen.DDC classification:
  • 951.05/8 22
LOC classification:
  • DS779.32 .Z49 2001eb (Online)
Online resources:
Contents:
Foreward by Charles Tilly; Preface; Chronology; Introduction; Part One: The Origin of the 1989 Student Movement; 1 China's State-Society Relations and Their Changes during the 1980s; 2 Intellectual Elites and the 1989 Movement; 3 Economic Reform, University Expansion, and Student Discontents; 4 The Decline of the System for Controlling Students in Universities; 5 On the Eve of the 1989 Movement; Part Two: The Development of the 1989 Beijing Student Movement; 6 A Brief History of the 1989 Movement; 7 State Legitimacy, State Behaviors, and Movement Development.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-411) and indexes.

Foreward by Charles Tilly; Preface; Chronology; Introduction; Part One: The Origin of the 1989 Student Movement; 1 China's State-Society Relations and Their Changes during the 1980s; 2 Intellectual Elites and the 1989 Movement; 3 Economic Reform, University Expansion, and Student Discontents; 4 The Decline of the System for Controlling Students in Universities; 5 On the Eve of the 1989 Movement; Part Two: The Development of the 1989 Beijing Student Movement; 6 A Brief History of the 1989 Movement; 7 State Legitimacy, State Behaviors, and Movement Development.

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.

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