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Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China [Hardcover]

Craig Calhoun (Author)

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Publication Date: February 1995

This is an eye-witness account of the 1989 student protest movement which culminated in the confrontation at Tiananmen Square. Drawing on interviews and documentary research, the book offers an account of how the movement gathered force, broke through the limits of previous anti-government rebellions, faltered, found renewal in hunger strikes and powerful symbols, and was finally crushed by the military. The book also explores the dynamics of the movement itself, from the way it contributed to a new sense of "civil society", to the fresh notions of collective respect and personal autonomy it engendered.

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Product Details

Hardcover: 350 pages
Publisher: Univ of California Pr (February 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520088263
ISBN-13: 978-0520088269
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.5 x 1.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,365,761 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Through the winter and early spring of 1988-89, groups of young teachers and students gathered on Beijing's university campuses. Read the first page

Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
misty poets, senior intellectuals, long live democracy, provincial students, hunger strikers, autonomous students, protesting students, character poster, student protest movement, student protesters

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Tiananmen Square, Chai Ling, Cultural Revolution, Communist Party, Wang Dan, Shen Tong, Zhao Ziyang, Deng Xiaoping, People's Daily, May Fourth, Hong Kong, Goddess of Democracy, People's Republic, Dialogue Delegation, United States, Yellow River, Fang Lizhi, Great Hall of the People, Hou Dejian, People's University, Chang'an Boulevard, Protect Tiananmen Headquarters, Forbidden City, Liu Binyan, Liu Xiaobo

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Popular Protest And Political Culture In Modern China: Second Edition (Politics in Asia & the Pacific) by Jeffrey N Wasserstrom on 6 pages
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Reform and Reaction in Post-Mao China: The Road Through Tiananmen by Richard Baum on 4 pages
Modern China by John King Fairbank on 4 pages
Habermas and the Public Sphere (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Craig Calhoun in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)

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