Tiananmen moon
Subtitle: inside the Chinese student uprising of 1989
By: Philip J. Cunningham.
Series: Asian voices
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780742566729; 9780742566743
Subjects: College students -- China -- Beijing -- Biography; Student movements -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century; Foreign correspondents -- China -- Beijing -- History -- 20th century; China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989; Beijing (China) -- Biography; Tian'an Men (Beijing, China) -- History -- 20th century; Beijing (China) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century; China -- History -- Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989 -- Press coverage
Genres: Biography.
Description: This compelling book povides a vivid first-hand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account of Beijing students desperately trying to secure the most coveted political real estate in China in the face of ever more daunting government countermoves. He also follows the parallel response of an unprepared but resourceful Western media.
Notes: Includes index.