Cries For Democracy
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Activism
Author_Minzhu Han
Autocracy
Beijing Normal University
Big-character poster
Bourgeois liberalization
Bureaucrat
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Central Committee
Chai Ling
Chen Xitong
China
China Central Television
Chinese democracy movement
Chinese people
Communism
Communist Party of China
Comrade
Counter-revolutionary
Criticism
Cultural Revolution
Democracy
Democracy in China
Democracy Wall
Democratization
Deng Xiaoping
Dictatorship
Dissident
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Fang Lizhi
Federation for a Democratic China
Government of China
Great Hall of the People
Hu Yaobang
Hunger strike
Ideology
Kuomintang
Li Peng
Liberalization
Mao Zedong
Maoism
Martial law
May Fourth Movement
Monument to the People's Heroes
National People's Congress
Newspaper
Nonviolence
Nonviolent resistance
Open letter
Party leader
People's Daily
Persecution
Politburo
Political party
Politics
Protest
Publication
Red Guards (China)
Regime
Ren Wanding
Socialist state
Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
Struggle (TV series)
Student activism
Student protest
Tiananmen Square
Wang Dan
Xinhua News Agency
Yan Jiaqi
Yang Shangkun
Zhao Ziyang
Zhongnanhai
Zhou Enlai
Product details
- ISBN 9780691008578
- Weight: 624g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Apr 1990
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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"Han Minzhu" and her assistant editor, "Hua Sheng," both writing under pseudonyms to protect their identities, present a rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement--flyers, "big-character" posters, "small-character" posters, handbills, poems, articles from nonofficial newspapers and journals, government statements, and transcriptions of tapes. Linked by a commentary setting the documents in the context of the movement's history and of Chinese social and political life, these expressions--indeed, cries--of the participants in the passionate demonstrations in Beijing and other Chinese cities powerfully convey the atmosphere of this extraordinary protest. In the face of the ensuing campaign of intimidation and repression in China, this book enables Western readers to see through the eyes of Chinese students, intellectuals, workers, and other citizens the realities behind the reports and visual images that flooded the media during the spring of 1989.
The editors believe that the underlying motivations, emotions, and aspirations of the prodemocracy demonstrators can best be communicated to those outside China by translations that aim as much as possible to capture the original words, tones, and rhythms of the Chinese people. This book is a unique collection of political and personal documents, and it is also a dramatic presentation of the movement. The lucid commentary, the arrangement of selections in approximate chronological order, and the use of photographs combine to create a vivid and flowing narrative. Beginning with the student discontent and restlessness that pervaded Chinese campuses in the winter of 1989, and continuing through to the violent suppression of the Democracy Movement in June with the bloody army takeover of Tiananmen Square and sweeping arrests of activists, the story shows how moderate demands on the part of students grew into a mass antigovernment protest and resistance to martial law in Beijing.
Highlighting the demands and goals of the protesters and the attitude of the students toward the Chinese Communist Party, the work movingly evokes the determination, idealism, courage, and flashes of humor that were the essence of this unforgettable spring.
