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Includes documents detailing what the Communist Party leadership knew at each stage of the events during the 1989 crisis, who decided to send in the troops, and how it split the leadership and froze political reform since; China. Adapted from "The Tiananmen Papers," New York, PublicAffairs, 2000.

In this edition of his path-breaking analysis of political and social change in China since the crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989, Joseph Fewsmith traces developments since 2001. These include the continuing reforms during the final years of Jiang Zemin's premiership and Hu Jintao's succession in 2002. Here the author also considers social trends and how Chinese citizens are starting to have a significant influence on government policies. As Fewsmith - a highly regarded political scientist and a seasoned China-watcher - observes, China is a very different place since Tiananmen Square. In the interim, it has emerged from isolation to become one of the most significant players on the world stage. This book explains the forces that have shaped China since Tiananmen

Implications of the student protest movement and its suppression by the People's Liberation Army (PLA), June 1989.

After reconstructing the development of the confrontation between the democracy movement and the authorities of the PRC in the six weeks ending on the 3 June 1989 (the Tiananmen Square Incident), the author analyses the incident, focusing on its internal and external repercussions as well as on the relevance to the situation in China of the monumental changes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. (DÜI-Sen)

Compares the policies of France and Germany towards China since suppression of demonstrations by the students' movement in Tiananmen Square, Beijing, in 1989; focus on the shift from policies based on the desire to protect human rights to policies based mainly on economic concerns. Summary in English p. 182-3.

Examines US policy debate after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre of student demonstrators by the Chinese communist government. Threat perceptions and structure of US public opinion, executive-legislative relations, sanctions, the Pelosi Bill, and the most-favored-nation debate.