Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement

Timothy Brook

Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Country
United States
Published
1 December 1998
Pages
292
ISBN
9780804736381

Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement

Timothy Brook

This is a unique, day-by-day, hour-by-hour 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 author focuses on the army (the People’s Liberation Army), which, with its motto ‘Serve the People’, had always prided itself on its close ties to the civilian population. What were the intentions of the Chinese government in mobilizing the army against civilians? Why did the troops act as they did, and what does this say about how the army would act on the next such occasion? How does the military suppression of the democracy movement help us to understand China’s current predicament concerning democratization and human rights?

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