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The Power of Tiananmen
State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement
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Dingxin Zhao
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English
Published/Copyright:
2001
About this book
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. Along with grassroots tales and interviews with the young men and women who launched the demonstrations, Zhao carries out a penetrating analysis of the many parallel changes in China's state-society relations during the 1980s. Such changes prepared an alienated academy, gave rise to ecology-based student mobilization, restricted government policy choices, and shaped student emotions and public opinion, all of which, Zhao argues, account for the tragic events in Tiananmen.
Dingxin Zhao's award-winning The Power of Tiananmen is the definitive treatment of these historic events. Along with grassroots tales and interviews with the young men and women who launched the demonstrations, Zhao carries out a penetrating analysis of the many parallel changes in China's state-society relations during the 1980s. Such changes prepared an alienated academy, gave rise to ecology-based student mobilization, restricted government policy choices, and shaped student emotions and public opinion, all of which, Zhao argues, account for the tragic events in Tiananmen.
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Dingxin Zhao is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Foreword
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Preface
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Chronology
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Introduction
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PART ONE. THE ORIGIN OF THE 1989 STUDENT MOVEMENT
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PART TWO. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE 1989 BEIJING STUDENT MOVEMENT
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Conclusion
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Appendix 1: A Methodological Note,
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Appendix 2: Interview Questions
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References
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Name Index
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Subject Index
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December 5, 2008
eBook ISBN:
9780226982625
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456
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12 halftones, 3 maps, 16 tables
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9780226982625
Keywords for this book
1980s; contemporary; modern; history; historical; 20th century; beijing; china; student; movement; activism; activist; protest; sociology; students; revolt; tiananmen square; protestors; strikes; hunger; arson; violence; government; grassroots; politics; political; analysis; state; academy; policy; public; opinion; tragedy; university; college; higher ed
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
