The Power of Tiananmen
Subtitle: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 15, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9780226982601
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political science & theory; History; Politics / Current Events; History: World; History & Theory - General; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; Political Science / History & Theory; Asia - General; China; Tiananmen Square Incident, 198; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989
First sentence: I have laid out a theoretical framework that argues that state-society relations-understood in terms of the nature of the state, the nature of society, and the linkages between the state and society-are the most important factors underlying the rise and development of a large-scale social movement or revolution.