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Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement

By Timothy Brook

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
9781503618893
DOI
10.1515/9781503618893
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
75 MB (78132354 bytes)
Pages
292\290
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-23 22:12:41

Description

This is a riveting, day-by-day, hour-by-hour reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The author focuses on the army—the People's Liberation Army—which, with its motto "Serve the People," had always prided itself on its close ties to the civilian population. What were the intentions of the Chinese government in mobilizing the army against civilians? Why did the troops act as they did, and what does this say about how the army would act on the next such occasion? How does the military suppression of the democracy movement help us to understand China's current predicament over democratization and human rights?

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