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Tiananmen Moon - Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 (Paperback)
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Tiananmen Moon - Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 (Paperback)
Series: Asian Voices
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The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this book is now available.
This compelling book provides a vivid firsthand account of the
student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989.
Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active
participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, 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. Tiananmen Moon takes the reader into the thick of the
1989 protests while also following the parallel response of an
unprepared but resourceful Western media. Cunningham recounts rare
vignettes about life in Tiananmen Square under student leadership,
including a near riot when a reporter is mistaken for Gorbachev,
the saga of a tearful leader who quits and dictates her last will
and testament to the author, and a dramatic account of futile
resistance in the face of an unforgiving crackdown. He chronicles
the opportunistic and awkward tango between naive student activists
and jaded foreign journalists, in which, after a month of mutual
courting, the tables turn and the now-savvy students watch the
journalists, seduced and confused, run circles just trying to keep
up. During the hunger strike under the light of a full moon, China
bares its conflicted soul to the world, the mournful cry for reform
amplified by the footsteps of a million peaceful marchers. This
remarkable testament to a searing month that changed China forever
serves as a witness to the rise and fall of an uprising, capturing
the plaintive and lyrical beauty of a dream that endures and
continues to haunt the country today.
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