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Author Cunningham, Philip J.

Title Tiananmen moon : inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989 / Philip J. Cunningham
Published Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 291 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Asian voices
Asian voices (Rowman and Littlefield, Inc.)
Contents I: New moon -- In search of the real China -- The new May fourth spirit -- Ten thousand bicycles -- II: Waxing moon -- Hunger strike -- Laying claim to the square -- Looking for Gorbachev -- Working-class heroes -- Rising tide of rebellion -- Everyone an emperor -- Breaking the fast -- III: Waning moon -- Martial law -- Provincial vagabonds -- Egg on the face of Mao -- Tiananmen headquarters -- Radical camp -- Last will and testament -- Clandestine interview -- Going underground -- Midnight rendezvous -- IV: No moon -- Troops are coming -- Of tanks and men -- Eve of destruction -- The sky is crying
Summary This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account of Beijing students desperately trying to secure the most coveted political real estate in China in the face of ever more daunting government countermoves. Tiananmen Moon takes the reader into the thick ofthe 1989 protests while also following the parallel response of an unprepared but resourceful Wes
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Subject College students -- China -- Beijing -- Biography
Student movements -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
Foreign correspondents -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY.
College students.
Foreign correspondents.
Manners and customs.
Press coverage.
Student movements.
SUBJECT China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89004135
Beijing (China) -- Biography
Tian'an Men (Beijing, China) -- History -- 20th century
Beijing (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 -- Press coverage
Subject China.
China -- Beijing.
China -- Beijing -- Tian'an Men.
Genre/Form Biographies.
History.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780742566743
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0742566730
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9786612497346
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