The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement.(Book Review)

From: The Historian | Date: June 22, 2003| Author: Sheng, Michael M. | Copyright information

The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement. By Dingxin Zhao. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001. Pp. 433. $35.00.)

The experience of this reviewer parallels that of the author. We both come from Shanghai and were studying for our doctorates in Canadian universities when the 1989 Tiananmen student movement was unfolding, ending in the 4 June massacre. In those unforgettable weeks, we sat fixated in front of television se...

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