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1 online resource (vii, 192 pages) |
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Chapter 2 Political Environment of Students in China and Taiwan 8 -- Chapter 3 Student Mobilization and Organization in China, April 15-May 10, 1989 21 -- Chapter 4 Student Mobilization and Organization in China, May 11-June 4, 1989 57 -- Chapter 5 Student Mobilization and Organization in Taiwan, March 1990 95 -- Appendix A Autonomous Student Organizations in Beijing, Spring 1989 141 -- Appendix B "Letter to All University Students" (Text of Class Boycott Proposal) 142 -- Appendix C Autonomous Student Organizations in Taipei, Spring 1990 144 |
| Summary |
China's student movement of 1989 ushered in an era of harsh political repression, crushing the hopes of those who desired a more democratic future. Communist Party elites sealed the fate of the movement, but did ill-considered choices by student leaders contribute to its tragic outcome? To answer this question, Teresa Wright centers on a critical source of information that has been largely overlooked by the dozens of works that have appeared in the past decade on the "Democracy Movement": the students themselves. Drawing on interviews and little-known first-hand accounts, Wright offers the most complete and representative compilation of thoughts and opinions of the leaders of this student action. She compares this closely studied movement with one that has received less attention, Taiwan's Month of March Movement of 1990, introducing for the first time in English a narrative of Taiwan's largest student demonstration to date. Despite their different outcomes (the Taiwan action ended peacefully and resulted in the government addressing student demands), both movements similarly maintained a strict separation between student and non-student participants and were unstable and conflict-ridden. This comparison allows for a thorough assessment of the origins and impact of student behavior in 1989 and provides intriguing new insights into the growing literature on political protest in non-democratic regimes |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-183) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Students -- Political activity.
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Students -- China
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Students -- Taiwan
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
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Students
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Students -- Political activity
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Politisches Handeln
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Student
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Studentenbeweging.
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Onderdrukking.
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Activisme.
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Étudiants -- Activité politique -- Chine.
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Étudiants -- Activité politique -- Taiwan.
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Répression politique -- Chine.
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Répression politique -- Taiwan.
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Etudiants -- Activité politique -- Chine -- 1970-2000.
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Etudiants -- Activité politique -- Taiwan -- 1970-2000.
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| SUBJECT |
Students -- China
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Students -- Taiwan
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China
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Taiwan
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Taiwan
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China
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Chine -- 1989 (Massacre de la place Tian'anmen)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780824864927 |
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0824864921 |
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