Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square
Author: Vijay Gokhale
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 176
Release: 2021-05-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9354225365

'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.

Inconvenient Memories

Inconvenient Memories
Author: Anna Wang
Publisher: Purple Pegasus Publishing
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2019-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780996640589

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.

The Tiananmen Papers

The Tiananmen Papers
Author: Liang Zhang
Publisher: Public Affairs
Total Pages: 582
Release: 2008-08-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786725478

On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this extraordinary collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these events came to pass from behind the scenes. The material reveals how the most important decisions were made; and how the turmoil split the ruling elite into radically opposed factions. The book includes the minutes of the crucial meetings at which the Elders decided to cashier the pro-reform Party secretary Zhao Ziyang and to replace him with Jiang Zemin, to declare martial law, and finally to send the troops to drive the students from the Square. Just as the Pentagon Papers laid bare the secret American decision making behind the Vietnam War and changed forever our view of the nation's political leaders, so too has The Tiananmen Papers altered our perception of how and why the events of June 4 took the shape they did. Its publication has proven to be a landmark event in Chinese and world history.

The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

The Legacy of Tiananmen Square
Author: Michel Cormier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780864929020

Examines the struggle to bring democracy to China in the wake of the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square
Author: Andrew Langley
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2009
Genre: China
ISBN: 0756541018

Examines the events and aftermath of the massacre by the Chinese army of protestors in Beijing's Tiananmen Square in 1989.

The People's Republic of Amnesia

The People's Republic of Amnesia
Author: Louisa Lim
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2014
Genre: History
ISBN: 0199347700

"One of the best analyses of the impact of Tiananmen throughout China in the years since 1989." --The New York Times Book Review

Children of the Dragon

Children of the Dragon
Author: Human Rights in China (Organization)
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1990
Genre: History
ISBN:

Eyewitness account of the Tiananmen massacre where the world watched in horror as government troops opened fire on thousands of democracy campaigners in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

Tiananmen Square

Tiananmen Square
Author: Scott Simmie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

Moving the Mountain

Moving the Mountain
Author: Lu Li
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1990
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A student leader of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square provides a persona account of the protests, the Chinese government's violent retaliation, and the aftermath.