Popular Views of State Violence in China The Tiananmen Incident

Over the last twenty years, the story of what happened in China in 1989 has been reduced to an increasingly simple set of events: students stood off against soldiers in Beijing in order to champion democratizing reforms, and the international media watched helplessly on June 4 as hundreds were slaug...

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Published inState Violence in East Asia p. 105
Main Authors Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Kate Merkel-Hess
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States The University Press of Kentucky 2013
University Press of Kentucky
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Behavioral sciences
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Human geography
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Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000
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Summary:Over the last twenty years, the story of what happened in China in 1989 has been reduced to an increasingly simple set of events: students stood off against soldiers in Beijing in order to champion democratizing reforms, and the international media watched helplessly on June 4 as hundreds were slaughtered in Tiananmen Square. This narrative gets some key details wrong: for example, it is likely that very few people died right in Tiananmen Square itself in early June (it is possible that none did, and in any case, the main killing fields were on nearby streets, not on the plaza).
ISBN:0813136792
9780813136790