LibGuides: Modern China Studies: 1989 Democracy Movement

Materials on the 1989 democracy movement held at ANU

This part lists selected items ANU holds about the 1989 democracy movement, also known as Tiananmen Square protests, Tiananmen Square Incident, or 六四事件, liùsì shìjiàn. It will also include freely available websites, blogs or other relevant postings from third parties relevant to this protest movement.

The list will be further updated.

Thirty Years After - commemorations and articles 2019

"Why we remember June 4th"
recommended
Perry Link, Chinafile, published 28 May 2019.
"Hong Kong commemorates the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, as fear of Beijing grows"
Article describing the commemorations in Hong Kong, 5.6.19, ABC News
我是記者: 我的六四故事 - I am a Journalist, My June 4 story"
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the 1989 Beijing June 4 Massacre, a group of 60 Hong Kong journalists has decided to document the event with a multimedia publication project: “I am a Journalist, My June 4 Story.” The trailer for this project can be seen here: My June 4 story
"Voices from Tiananmen"
SCMP's article in which former government officials, student leaders and other eyewitnesses revisit the momentous events of spring, 1989.
Tiananmen 1989 - Eyewitness to History podcast
China Law & Policy believes that an understanding of the development of the Chinese legal system is integral to an informed U.S. policy toward China. In China, where the legal system is often indistinguishable from the political system, which laws are effectively implemented is not necessarily determined by an independent legal system, but instead reflects the political priorities of the ruling Chinese Communist Party. U.S. policy needs to take this fact into consideration. This blog site provides relevant information.
"Tiananmen Square: China 30 years on
"The FT's global China editor James Kynge was a reporter in Beijing when the government sent in troops and tanks to quash student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989. Talking to dissidents and political activists, he looks back at how shots fired then still reverberate today."
Financial Times, published May 23, 2019.
Filmed and produced by Tom Griggs. Original footage by Terril Jones.
30 years after Tiananamen, a Chinese Military Insider Warns: Never Forget"
."..In the run-up to the 30th anniversary of the June 4, 1989, crackdown, Ms. Jiang, 66, has decided for the first time to tell her story. She said she felt compelled to call for a public reckoning because generations of Chinese Communist Party leaders, including President Xi Jinping, have expressed no remorse for the violence. Ms. Jiang left China this week."
"1989 Tiananmen massacre"
Published by the Hong Kong Free Press: A series of commemorative videos can be found here
"30 years on from Tiananmen Square crackdown, why Beijing still thinks it got it right "
This article gives the history of party denial of the Tiananmen protests.
"China’s ‘Black Week-end"
Book review of Bao Pu" The Last Secret: The Final Documents from the June Fourth Crackdown", by Ian Johnson.
Hong Kong: New Century Press, 362 pp.
Published: June 27 isue, 2019

Recent newspaper or journal articles

Introduction and reviews:

-- Szczepanski, Kallie: "The Tiananmen Square Massacre. What really happened at Tiananmen" 29 January 2019, ThoughtCo:

https://www.thoughtco.com/the-tiananmen-square-massacre-195216

-- Chiu, Lisa: "What caused the Tiananmen Square Protests?". 5 January 2019, ThoughtCo:

https://www.thoughtco.com/root-of-the-tiananmen-square-protests-688411

-- Encyclopedia Britannica Introduction:

https://www.britannica.com/event/Tiananmen-Square-incident

"The high price of denial: the cost to China of sweeping the Tiananmen crackdown under "
Josephine Ma, Guo Rui . SCMP online, published: 6:57pm, 21 May, 2019

Western language materials

Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 by Cunningham, Philip J. e-book (ANU staff and students)

Publication Date: 2014

Firsthand account of the student demonstrations and massacre in Tiananmen Square in 1989. Uniquely placed as a Western observer drawn into active participation through Chinese friends in the uprising, Philip J Cunningham offers a remarkable day-by-day account of Beijing students desperately trying to secure the most coveted political real estate in China in the face of ever-more daunting government countermoves.

Behind the Tiananmen Massacre by Chu-Yuan Cheng

Call Number: DS779.32.C46 1990

ISBN: 0813310474

Publication Date: 1990

A description of the rapidly changing socio-economic and political conditions that led to public demonstrations and bloody repression in Beijing in the spring of 1989. Juxtaposing recent economic programmes against China's egalitarian tradition, the author shows how political unrest developed.
The Eyes Have It 六四見證 by Grassy Plan (publ.)

ISBN: 9624140014

Publication Date: 1990

48 eyewitness accounts on the 1989 June 4 Incident in Beijing.

The Tiananmen Papers by Zhang Liang; Andrew J. Nathan; Perry Link; Orville Schell; Liang Zhang
Call Number: DS779.32 .T537 2001
ISBN: 158648012X
Publication Date: 2000
Twenty-nine years ago, the Pentagon Papers provided a vivid, revelatory, sometimes damning look at the operations of the American government during the Vietnam War. Now "The Tiananmen papers" provides a similarly detailed, first-hand look inside China. Maps.

Chinese language materials

89 风波透视 by 船夫
Call Number: DS779.32 .C578 1990

ISBN: 7220009259

Publication Date: 1990
1989北京制止动乱平息反革命暴乱纪事 / by 中共北京市委办公厅

Call Number: 2975 1484

ISBN: 7805023395

Publication Date: 1989
八九民運的回顧與前瞻: 六四週年紀念特輯
Call Number: DS779.32 .B36 1990

Publication Date: 1990
八九中國民運報章廣告專輯 by 香港市民支援愛國民主運動聯合會中國民主運動資料中心

Call Number: +1774873 - on request only

Publication Date: 1990

Newspaper advertisements on the democratic movements of China '89
八九中國民運見証報告專輯 by 中國民主運動資料中心
Call Number: 2975 8456.1 - on request only

Publication Date: 1990

Witness reports on the democratic movement of China ʼ89
八九中國民運鎭壓迫害專輯 : 期刊資料 by 香港市民支援愛國民主運動聯合會中國民主運動資料中心
Call Number: +1773936 - on request only

Publication Date: 1990

Articles on suppression and persecution of the democratic movement of China '89

Movies / multimedia / websites

Images :

"Rare Historical photos" offer images from the movement here.