Inconvenient Memories

2019-05-15

Author : Anna Wang
Release : 2019-05-15
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Book Rating : 572/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Inconvenient Memories written by Anna Wang. This book was released on 2019-05-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inconvenient Memories is a rare and truthful memoir of a young woman's coming of age amid the Tiananmen Square Protests of 1989. In 1989, Anna Wang was one of a lucky few who worked for a Japanese company, Canon. She traveled each day between her grandmother's dilapidated commune-style apartment and an extravagant office just steps from Tiananmen Square. Her daily commute on Beijing's impossibly crowded buses brought into view the full spectrum of China's economic and social inequalities during the economic transition. When Tiananmen Protests broke out, her Japanese boss was concerned whether the protests would obstruct Canon's assembly plant in China, and she was sent to Tiananmen Square on a daily basis to take photos for her boss to analyze for evidence of turning tides. From the perspective as a member of the emerging middle class, she observed firsthand that Tiananmen Protests stemmed from Chinese people's longing for political freedom and their fear for the nascent market economy, an observation that readers have never come across from the various accounts of the historical events so far.

The Legacy of Tiananmen

1996 History

Author : James A. R. Miles
Release : 1996
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 517/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The Legacy of Tiananmen written by James A. R. Miles. This book was released on 1996. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From talking to the powerful in Beijing and the peasants in the countryside, an experienced journalist interprets China and its post-Deng future

Memories Tiananmen

2021-08-02

Author : Chan LEE
Release : 2021-08-02
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Book Rating : 447/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Memories Tiananmen written by Chan LEE. This book was released on 2021-08-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on data gathered through multiple sources such as news reports, digital media content, vigil onsite surveys, population surveys, and in-depth interviews with activists, rally participants, and other stakeholders, it identifies six key processes in the dynamics of social remembering: memory formation, memory mobilization, memory institutionalization, intergenerational transfer, memory repair, and memory balkanization. Memories of Tiananmen demonstrates how a socially dominant collective memory, even one the state finds politically irritable, can be generated and maintained through constant negotiation and efforts by a wide range of actors. While the book mainly focuses on the interplay between political changes and Tiananmen commemoration in the historical period within which the society enjoyed a significant degree of civil liberties, it also discusses how the trajectory of the collective memory may take a drastic turn as Hong Kong's autonomy is abridged. The book promises to be a key reference for anyone interested in collective memory studies, social movement research, political communication, and China and Hong Kong studies.

Tiananmen Exiles

2014-04-09 Political Science

Author : Rowena Xiaoqing He
Release : 2014-04-09
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 320/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Tiananmen Exiles written by Rowena Xiaoqing He. This book was released on 2014-04-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1989, millions of citizens across China took to the streets in a nationwide uprising against government corruption and authoritarian rule. What began with widespread hope for political reform ended with the People's Liberation Army firing on unarmed citizens in the capital city of Beijing, and those leaders who survived the crackdown became wanted criminals overnight. Among the witnesses to this unprecedented popular movement was Rowena Xiaoqing He, who would later join former student leaders and other exiles in North America, where she has worked tirelessly for over a decade to keep the memory of the Tiananmen Movement alive. This moving oral history interweaves He's own experiences with the accounts of three student leaders exiled from China. Here, in their own words, they describe their childhoods during Mao's Cultural Revolution, their political activism, the bitter disappointments of 1989, and the profound contradictions and challenges they face as exiles. Variously labeled as heroes, victims, and traitors in the years after Tiananmen, these individuals tell difficult stories of thwarted ideals and disconnection, but that nonetheless embody the hope for a freer China and a more just world.

The People's Republic of Amnesia

2014 History

Author : Louisa Lim
Release : 2014
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 700/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book The People's Republic of Amnesia written by Louisa Lim. This book was released on 2014. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review

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