Tiananmen Papers,9781586480127

Tiananmen Papers

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ISBN13: 9781586480127
ISBN10: 158648012X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Public Affairs
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Summary

On the night of June 3-4, 1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. Although the story of the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement has been told before from the viewpoint of the student demonstrators and the foreign press corps, never before have we been privy to the view from Zhongnanhai, the parklike compound in the center of Beijing that is the seat of China's ruling Party and government offices. In The Tiananmen Papers, the story of the 1989 demonstrations is told for the first time in the words of the leaders who made the decision to crush it.

Author Biography

Andrew J. Nathan is professor of political science and former director of the East Asian Institute at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Preface Reflections on June Fourth xi
Zhang Liang
Introduction The Documents and Their Significance xv
Andrew J. Nathan
Prologue 1986--Spring 1989: Seeds of Crisis 3(16)
April 8--23: The Student Movement Begins
19(37)
April 24--30: The April 26 Editorial
56(44)
May 1--6: Signs of Compromise
100(21)
May 6--16: Hunger Strike
121(54)
May 16--19: The Fall of Zhao Ziyang
175(48)
May 19--22: Martial Law
223(54)
May 23--25: The Conflict Intensifies
277(20)
May 26--28: The Elders Choose Jiang Zemin
297(21)
May 29--June 3: Preparing to Clear the Square
318(47)
June Fourth
365(54)
Epilogue June 1989 and After: Renewed Struggle over China's Future 419(40)
Afterword Reflections on Authentication 459(16)
Orville Schell
Abbreviations 475(2)
Who Was Who: One Hundred Brief Biographies 477(14)
Index 491

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