TY  - BOOK
AU  - Han,Minzhu
AU  - Jiaqi,Yan
AU  - Spence,Jonathan D.
TI  - Cries For Democracy: Writings and Speeches from the Chinese Democracy Movement 
SN  - 9780691229522
AV  - DS779.26 
U1  - 951.05/8 20
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Students
KW  - Political activity
KW  - China
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Activism
KW  - Arson
KW  - Autocracy
KW  - Backwardness
KW  - Beijing Normal University
KW  - Beijing
KW  - Big-character poster
KW  - Bourgeois liberalization
KW  - Bureaucrat
KW  - Central Committee
KW  - Chai Ling
KW  - Chairman of the Central Military Commission
KW  - Chairman
KW  - Chen Xitong
KW  - Chiang Kai-shek
KW  - China Central Television
KW  - Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
KW  - Chinese democracy movement
KW  - Chinese people
KW  - Civil service
KW  - Class conflict
KW  - Communism
KW  - Communist Party of China
KW  - Comrade
KW  - Counter-revolutionary
KW  - Criticism
KW  - Cultural Revolution
KW  - Democracy Wall
KW  - Democracy in China
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Democratization
KW  - Deng Xiaoping
KW  - Despotism
KW  - Dictatorship
KW  - Dissident
KW  - Fang Lizhi
KW  - Federation for a Democratic China
KW  - Government of China
KW  - Government
KW  - Great Hall of the People
KW  - Hatred
KW  - Hu Yaobang
KW  - Hunger strike
KW  - Ideology
KW  - Intellectual
KW  - Kuomintang
KW  - Li Peng
KW  - Liberalization
KW  - Mao Zedong
KW  - Maoism
KW  - Martial law
KW  - Marxism
KW  - May Fourth Movement
KW  - Monument to the People's Heroes
KW  - National People's Congress
KW  - Newspaper
KW  - Nonviolence
KW  - Nonviolent resistance
KW  - Of Education
KW  - Open letter
KW  - Party leader
KW  - Patriotism
KW  - People's Daily
KW  - Persecution
KW  - Politburo
KW  - Political party
KW  - Political prisoner
KW  - Politician
KW  - Politics
KW  - Power politics
KW  - Protest
KW  - Publication
KW  - Red Guards (China)
KW  - Regime
KW  - Ren Wanding
KW  - Resignation
KW  - Right-wing politics
KW  - Rule of law
KW  - Serve the People
KW  - Socialist state
KW  - Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
KW  - Struggle (TV series)
KW  - Student activism
KW  - Student group
KW  - Student protest
KW  - Sun Yat-sen
KW  - The Newspaper
KW  - Their Lives
KW  - Tiananmen Square
KW  - Wan Li
KW  - Wang Dan
KW  - Wei Jingsheng
KW  - Writing
KW  - Xinhua News Agency
KW  - Yan Jiaqi
KW  - Yang Shangkun
KW  - Zhao Ziyang
KW  - Zhongnanhai
KW  - Zhou Enlai
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Preface --; Introduction --; Editors' Foreword --; Acknowledgments --; CRIES FOR DEMOCRACY --; Map of Beijing --; ONE The Birth of the 1989 Democracy Movement --; TWO The Founding of the Beijing Students' Federation and the April 27 Mass Student March --; THREE The Seventieth Anniversary of the 1919 May Fourth Movement --; FOUR The Hunger Strike --; FIVE The Declaration of Martial Law and the Army's Attempt to Enter Beijing --; SIX The Crushing of the Democracy Movement --; Index of Documents --; General Index; restricted access
N2  - "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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691229522?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691229522
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691229522/original
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