This is an eye-witness account of the 1989 student protest movement which culminated in the confrontation at Tiananmen Square. Drawing on interviews and documentary research, the book offers an account of how the movement gathered force, broke through the limits of previous anti-government rebellions, faltered, found renewal in hunger strikes and powerful symbols, and was finally crushed by the military. The book also explores the dynamics of the movement itself, from the way it contributed to a new sense of "civil society", to the fresh notions of collective respect and personal autonomy it engendered.
- ISBN10 0520920171
- ISBN13 9780520920170
- Publish Date 1 September 1997 (first published 1 December 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 350
- Language English