Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space
"Remaking Beijing explores the changing meaning of what is arguably modern China's most important politically charged space, Tiananmen Square. Wu Hung brings to the book a lifetime of different sorts of encounters with this locale, as well as the public events and artistic experiments that have taken place there or invoked it. The uprisings of 1989 loom large in the account, since the protests and bloodshed that year altered dramatically the meaning of Tiananmen both within China and around the world. This is an exciting book by a very important figure that will have a considerable impact both within and beyond the field of Chinese studies." - Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Indiana University"