The Power of Tiananmen

by Dingxin Zhao

• ISBN13: 9780226982618
• ISBN10: 0226982610
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Summary

In the spring of 1989 over 100,000 students in Beijing initiated the largest student revolt in human history. Television screens across the world filled with searing images from Tiananmen Square of protesters thronging the streets, massive hunger strikes, tanks set ablaze, and survivors tending to the dead and wounded after a swift and brutal government crackdown. Dingxin Zhao's award-winning The Power of Tiananmen is the definitive treatment of these historic events. Along with grassroots tales and interviews with the young men and women who launched the demonstrations, Zhao carries out a penetrating analysis of the many parallel changes in China's state-society relations during the 1980s. Such changes prepared an alienated academy, gave rise to ecology-based student mobilization, restricted government policy choices, and shaped student emotions and public opinion, all of which, Zhao argues, account for the tragic events in Tiananmen.

Author Biography

Dingxin Zhao is associate professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Chronology	p. xxiii
Introduction	p. I
The Origin of the 1989 Student Movement
China's State-Society Relations and Their Changes during the 1980s	p. 39
Intellectual Elites and the 1989 Movement	p. 53
Economic Reform, University Expansion, and Student Discontents	p. 79
The Decline of the System for Controlling Students in Universities	p. 101
On the Eve of the 1989 Movement	p. 123
The Development of the 1989 Beijing Student Movement
A Brief History of the 1989 Movement	p. 145
State Legitimacy, State Behaviors, and Movement Development	p. 209
Ecology-Based Mobilization and Movement Dynamics	p. 239
State-Society Relations and the Discourses and Activities of a Movement	p. 267
The State, Movement Communication, and the Construction of Public Opinion	p. 297
Conclusion	p. 331
A Methodological Note	p. 357
Interview Questions	p. 363
References	p. 371
Name Index	p. 413
Subject Index	p. 420
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