The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces (Contemporary Soviet Politics)

Jonathan Unger (ed.), Geremie Barmé et al

ISBN 10: 087332837X / ISBN 13: 9780873328371

Published by M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y., 1991

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xiii, 239 pages : map ; 24 cm. Summary:The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across China were engulfed by demonstrations. In this book, people who were on the spot that spring describe and analyze the upsurges of protest that erupted around them. Contents: The rise and fall of the Beijing people's movement / Tony Saich Beijing days, Beijing nights / Geremie Barmé The student democracy movement in Changchun / Roger W. Howard 'Tell the world about us' : the student movement in Shenyang, 1989 / Anne Gunn Xi'an spring / Joseph W. Esherick Voices from the protest movement in Chongqing : class accents and class tension / Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger Despair and hope : a Changsha chronicle / Andrea Worden Protest in a Hunan county town : the profile of a democracy movement activist in China's backwaters / Anita Chan The 1989 democracy movement in Fujian and its aftermath / Mary S. Erbaugh and Richard Curt Kraus The popular protest in Hangzhou / Keith Forster. Letter from Shanghai / Roy Forward The political undoing of Shanghai's World economic herald / Kate Wright Shanghai's response to the deluge / Shelley Warner.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pro-democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces (Contemporary Soviet Politics)
• Publisher: M.E. Sharpe, Armonk, N.Y.
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 087332837X
• ISBN 13: 9780873328371
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • China

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Synopsis

The mass protests that erupted in China during the spring of 1989 were not confined to Beijing and Shanghai. Cities and towns across the great breadth of China were engulfed by demonstrations, which differed regionally in content and tone: the complaints and protest actions in prosperous Fuijan Province on the south China coast were somewhat different from those in Manchuria or inland Xi'an or the country towns of Hunan. The variety of the reactions is a barometer of the political and economic climate in contemporary China. In this book, Western China specialists who were on the spot that spring describe and analyze the upsurges of protest that erupted around them.

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Authored by Unger, J.