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Author : Andrew Langley
Release : 2009
Genre : China
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Book Rating : 018/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tiananmen Square by : Andrew Langley
Download or read book Tiananmen Square written by Andrew Langley. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the events and aftermath of the massacre by the Chinese army of protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Author : Wil Mara
Release : 2014-02-21
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Book Rating : 534/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Tiananmen Square Massacre by : Wil Mara
Download or read book The Tiananmen Square Massacre written by Wil Mara. This book was released on 2014-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the events of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989, and covers economic reform in China, the beginnings of a pro-democracy movement, and how the Chinese government dealt with the aftermath of the massacre.
Author : Liao Yiwu
Release : 2020-03-03
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 655/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Bullets and Opium by : Liao Yiwu
Download or read book Bullets and Opium written by Liao Yiwu. This book was released on 2020-03-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “memorable series of portraits of the working class people who defended Tiananmen Square” (The New York Review of Books) during the protests from the award-winning poet, dissident, and “one of the most original and remarkable Chinese writers of our time” (Philip Gourevitch). Much has been written about the Tiananmen Square protests, but very little exists in the words of those who were actually there. For over seven years, Liao Yiwu—a master of contemporary Chinese literature, imprisoned and persecuted as a counter-revolutionary until he fled the country in 2011—secretly interviewed survivors of the devastating 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Tortured, imprisoned, and forced into silence and the margins of Chinese society for thirty years, their harrowing and unforgettable stories are now finally revealed in this “indispensable historical document” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review).
Author : Vijay Gokhale
Release : 2021-05-07
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 365/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Tiananmen Square by : Vijay Gokhale
Download or read book Tiananmen Square written by Vijay Gokhale. This book was released on 2021-05-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '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 : Anna Wang
Release : 2019-03-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 589/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Inconvenient Memories by : Anna Wang
Download or read book Inconvenient Memories written by Anna Wang. This book was released on 2019-03-15. 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 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.
