tiananmen square incident, beijing (china), 1989

Grace Parker, abandoned as an infant at a Chinese orphanage and adopted by a Canadian family, has rejected her Chinese heritage, until reports of the massacre of student protesters in Tiananmen Square prompt her to begin a search for her birth parents.

Anna leaves Australia to study traditional Chinese painting in Shanghai and falls in love with her student guide Chenxi, but trouble ensues when she unwittingly draws the attention of officials to Chenxi and his radical artist friends.

Describes the events of the Tiananmen Square massacre of June 1989, and covers economic reform in China, the beginnings of a pro-democracy movement, and how the Chinese government dealt with the aftermath of the massacre.

Provides an insider's account of the student protests in Tiananmen Square on June 4, 1989, and the Chinese government's refusal to officially acknowledge the event in order to protect the state's carefully constructed edifice of accepted history kept aloft by strict censorship, blatant falsehood, and willful forgetting.

Examines the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989, discussing the events that led to it, the actions of the students and the Chinese government, and its aftermath.

Growing up during China's Cultural Revolution, Lili endures the oppression and humiliation of the era when her parents are branded as intellectuals, and experiences a growing resentment that comes to fruition in 1989 in Tiananmen Square.

An account of growing up in China, describing political restraints and political demonstrations starting in the mid-1980s.

A collection of internal government and Communist Party documents that tell the story of the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in China's Tiananmen Square in the words of the leaders who made the decision to send in troops to crushthe movement.

A collection of essays from Chinese and American scholars focusing on the 1989 demonstrations for democratic reform in China, and their significance in connection with the country's political history.

Explores how the student-led demonstrations at Tianamen Square in the spring of 1989 have changed the government and social policies of China.