Tiananmen moon : inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989 / / Philip J Cunningham

• Autore: Cunningham Philip J. <1954->
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (523 p.)
• Disciplina: 951.05/8
• Soggetto topico: College students - China - Beijing; Student movements - China - Beijing - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: China History Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents; Tiananmen: Trying to Remember, Trying to Forget; Preface; PART I: NEW MOON; MAY 3 (AM): Blue Skies over Tiananmen; MAY 3 (PM): In Search of the Real China; MAY 4 (AM): The New May Fourth Spirit; MAY 4 (PM): Running with Rebels; MAY 10 (AM): Ten Thousand Bicycles; MAY 10 (PM): People's Daily; PART II: WAXING MOON; MAY 13 (AM): Democracy Walls; MAY 13 (PM): Hunger Strike; MAY 14 (AM): Sun and Stars; MAY 14 (PM): Overnight Vigil; MAY 15 (AM): Food for Fasters; MAY 15 (PM): Looking for Gorbachev; MAY 16: Working-Class Heroes; MAY 17: Rising Tide of Rebellion; MAY 18 (AM): Water Strike ; MAY 18 (PM): Criminal ElementsMAY 19 (AM): The New Red Guards; MAY 19 (PM): Breaking the Fast; PART III: WANING MOON; MAY 20: Martial Law; MAY 22: Provincial Vagabonds; MAY 23: Egg on the Face of Mao; MAY 24: Tiananmen Headquarters; MAY 26: Radical Camp; MAY 27: BBC Does the Countryside; MAY 28: Last Will and Testament; MAY 28: Clandestine Interview; MAY 28: Going Underground; MAY 28: Midnight Rendezvous; MAY 29: The Goddess; PART IV: NO MOON; JUNE 2 (Night): Troops Are Coming; JUNE 3 (Morning): Behind the Great Hall; JUNE 3 (Evening): Point of No Return; JUNE 3 (Night): Of Tanks and Men ; JUNE 3-4: Eve of DestructionJUNE 4: The Sky Is Crying; Afterword; About the Author
• Sommario/riassunto: This compelling book, now in a revised and expanded anniversary edition, provides a vivid first-hand account of the student demonstrations and violent crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account of Beijing students desperately trying to secure the most coveted political real estate in China in the face of ever-more daunting government countermoves. He brings t
• Titolo autorizzato: Tiananmen moon
• ISBN: 1-4422-3287-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910791033803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Asian voices.