June Fourth
The Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989
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- Author: Jeremy Brown, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
- Date Published: April 2021
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107657809
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The Tiananmen protests and Beijing massacre of 1989 were a major turning point in recent Chinese history. In this new analysis of 1989, Jeremy Brown tells the vivid stories of participants and victims, exploring the nationwide scope of the democracy movement and the brutal crackdown that crushed it. At each critical juncture in the spring of 1989, demonstrators and decision makers agonized over difficult choices and saw how events could have unfolded differently. The alternative paths that participants imagined confirm that bloodshed was neither inevitable nor necessary. Using a wide range of previously untapped sources and examining how ordinary citizens throughout China experienced the crackdown after the massacre, this ambitious social history sheds fresh light on events that continue to reverberate in China to this day.
Read more- An up-to-date and comprehensive approach to the complex history of the Tiananmen protests in a single, reader-friendly book
- Utilises a wide range of previously untapped sources and shows the nationwide nature of the protest movement
- Explores alternative paths based on participants' own memories
Reviews & endorsements
‘Brown’s June Fourth challenges our understanding of the 1989 Tiananmen protests that continue to haunt China today in a vivid account, richly documented, well-told and thoughtfully analyzed. This will be the standard history of Tiananmen for a generation.’ Timothy Cheek, author of The Intellectual in Modern Chinese History
See more reviews‘In a vivid narrative spanning China of the 1980s to June 4th, 1989 and its aftermath, Jeremy Brown’s restrained prose pricks at the conscience of a nation, so that we too ask ‘what if’ - a question as relevant today as then.’ Denise Chong, author of Egg on Mao
‘Brown re-evaluates sources with a fresh critical eye, illuminates the lives of ordinary people, including minorities and people in the provinces, and shows not just what happened but what might have happened if certain human choices had been different.’ Perry Link, author of Anatomy of Chinese: Rhythm, Metaphor, Politics
‘In a powerful and sometimes almost personal account of the 1989 protests, Brown retells the story of what happened in Beijing and elsewhere in China using perspectives often overlooked by scholars.’ Lev Nachman, L.A. Review of Books
'This lucid, thoughtful, and often riveting account by Jeremy Brown, a leading social historian of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), revisits almost every dimension of the dramatic upheaval of 1989 and forces us to examine afresh what we thought we already knew.' Andrew G. Walder, Journal of Cold War Studies
‘Brown’s book is of a critical underrepresented genre that I think will be of substantive use to many: a clear, nuanced, and comprehensive accounting of an event that so many of us teach but, because of the sheer amount of information and accounts that exist, don’t always teach well.’ Gina Anne Tam, Pacific Affairs
‘Brown skillfully assesses the turbulent June 1989 protests and massacre that occurred in Beijing through a historical rather than a political lens. … Recommended.’ S. C. Hart, Choice
'Brown’s riveting writing takes readers to streets, provinces, and lives that bring the complexity and legacies of 1989 into sharper focus.' Jessica DiCarlo, Eurasian Geography and Economics
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- Date Published: April 2021
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781107657809
- length: 288 pages
- dimensions: 150 x 230 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.43kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Part I. China's 1980s:
1. Happy
2. Angry
3. China's 1980s: Alternative Paths
Part II. The Tiananmen Protests:
4. The Tiananmen Protests as History
5. Demands and Responses
6. Backed into Corners
7. Workers and Citizens
8. Protests: Alternative Paths
Part III. Massacre:
9. The Beijing Massacre as History
10. Authorized Force: Preparing to Clear the Square
11. Permission to Open Fire
12. Where Bullets Flew
13. Inside the Square
14. Victims
15. The Massacre Continues
16. Quiet Reckonings
17. Massacre: Alternative Paths
Part IV. Nationwide:
18. Han versus Non-han
19. Outside In
20. Inside Out
21. Rage
22. Rural Actions and Reactions
23. Alternative Paths Nationwide
Part V. The Aftermath:
24. The Purge as History
25. 'Rioters'
26. Don't call it a Yundong
27. Going through the Motions
28. Falsehoods and Defiance
29. Aftermath: Alternative Paths
30. The Future of June Fourth.
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