Beijing Spring 1989: Confrontation and Conflict - The Basic Documents

by Michel C. Oksenberg, Marc Lambert, Melanie Manion

Overview

A collection of documents, with commentary, which trace the day-to-day pronouncements, utterances, and reflections from all sides of the conflict in China in the spring of 1989. The 65 documents are arranged chronologically, starting in early March and ending in late June.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781315289076
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/16/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	350
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Marc Lambert is a graduate student of China Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focusing on China’s ongoing democracy movement.,
Melanie Manion is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Rochester.,
Michel Oksenberg is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.,
Lawrence R. Sullivan is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, and a research associate at the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Polarized China; Part 101 Antecedents; Chapter 2 Prelude; Chapter 3 Neo-Authoritarianism; Chapter 4 Intellectual Dissent; Part 102 Beijing Spring; Chapter 5 The Crisis Begins; Chapter 6 The Political Struggle for Tiananmen; Chapter 7 Martial Law; Chapter 8 Premonitions of Violence; Chapter 9 The Aftermath;