Quelling the people : the military suppression of the Beijing democracy movement
This is a reconstruction of the massacre in Tiananmen Square on June 3-4, 1989, as well as of the crucial events in Beijing during the previous weeks that largely precipitated the massacre. The book focuses on the army which had always prided itself on its close ties to the civilian population.
Print Book, English, 1998
Stanford University Press, Stanford, Calif, 1998
xiv, 269 p. : maps ; 23 cm
9780804736381, 0804736383
912276018
1. Introduction; 2. Changing fate (April 15 - May 19); 3. No place left unguarded (May 19 - 23); 4, Waiting for the moon May 24 - June 3); 5. Spilling blood (June 3-4); 6. Counting bodies (June 4); 7. Consequences (June 4-9); 8. Closing the century; Afterword; Acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
"First published by Oxford University Press in 1992"--Title page verso