The Power of Tiananmen – State–Society & the 1989 Beijing Student Movement: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement - Hardcover

Zhao, Dingxin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0226982602 ISBN 13: 9780226982601

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2001

Synopsis

This text provides a comprehensive account of the events surrounding the largest student revolt in history. The author teases out the emotions, rumours and elements of traditional and national culture that drove the students to revolt in 1989 at Tiananmen Square, Beijing.

About this title

About the Author:

Dingxin Zhao is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

From the Inside Flap:

In the spring of 1989 over 100,000 students in Beijing initiated the largest student revolt in human history. Television screens across the world filled with searing images from Tiananmen Square of protesters thronging the streets, massive hunger strikes, tanks set ablaze, and survivors tending to the dead and wounded after a swift and brutal government crackdown.

Dingxin Zhao's award-winning The Power of Tiananmen is the definitive treatment of these historic events. Along with grassroots tales and interviews with the young men and women who launched the demonstrations, Zhao carries out a penetrating analysis of the many parallel changes in China's state-society relations during the 1980s. Such changes prepared an alienated academy, gave rise to ecology-based student mobilization, restricted government policy choices, and shaped student emotions and public opinion, all of which, Zhao argues, account for the tragic events in Tiananmen.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226982602
• ISBN 13: 9780226982601
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 456