Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement Ideas in Context ISBN13: 9780738612294

ISBN13: 9780738612294

Marilyn Stein

with co-author Professor Thomas N

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Quelling the People: The Military Suppression of the Beijing Democracy Movement Ideas in Context ISBN13: 9780738612294This is a riveting, 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