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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458977103321

Titolo

The impact of China's 1989 Tiananmen massacre / / edited by Jean-Philippe Beja

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-90684-3

1-136-90685-1

1-283-03863-3

9786613038630

0-203-84260-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 p.)

Collana

China policy series ; ; 17

Altri autori (Persone)

BejaJean-Philippe

Disciplina

951.05/8

Soggetti

Civil rights - China

Electronic books.

China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 Influence

China Politics and government 1976-2002

China Foreign relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Abbreviations; Contributors; Introduction: 4 June 1989: a watershed in Chinese contemporary history; 1 June Fourth: Memory and ethics; 2 The Chinese Communist Party and 4 June 1989: Or how to get out of it and get away with it; 3 The Impact of the June 4th Massacre on the Pro-Democracy Movement; 4 The Chinese Liberal Camp in Post-4 June China; 5 Wang Xiaobo and the no longer silent majority; 6 The seeds of Tiananmen: Reflections on a growing Chinese Civil Rights Movement

7 The practice of law as conscientious resistance: Chinese weiquan lawyers' experience8 The politicisation of China's law-enforcement and judicial apparatus; 9 The enduring importance of police repression: Laojiao, the rule of law and Taiwan's alternative evolution; 10 The Impact of the Tiananmen Crisis on China's economic transition; 11 The Tiananmen incident and the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong; 12 How China managed to de-isolate itself on the international stage



and re-engage the world after Tiananmen; 13 China and international human rights: Tiananmen's paradoxical impact

14 A shadow over Western democracies: China's political use of economic powerBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The 1989 pro-democracy movement in China constituted a huge challenge to the survival of the Chinese communist state, and the efforts of the Chinese Communist party to erase the memory of the massacre testify to its importance. This consisted of six weeks of massive pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and over 300 other cities, led by students, who in Beijing engaged in a hunger strike which drew wide public support. Their actions provoked repression from the regime, which - after internal debate - decided to suppress the movement with force, leading to a still-unknown number of deaths