num_pages: 148
description: On 3 June 1989 the leaders of China's Communist Party ordered the People's Liberation Army to turn its guns on the people of Peking. Provoked beyond reason by protests for freedom and democracy in Tiananmen Square, they sanctioned a weekend of indiscriminate slaughter and repression.
language: English
title: Tiananmen: The Rape of Peking
titlecomplete: Tiananmen: The Rape of Peking
genres: History, Nonfiction, China, Politics
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Doubleday