The PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTS in CHINA
Contemporary China Papers
Australian National University
The PRO-DEMOCRACY PROTESTS in CHINA
Reports from the Provinces
JONATHAN UNGER, editor
GEREMIE BARM | ROGER W. HOWARD |
ANITA CHAN | RICHARD CURT KRAUS |
MARY S. ERBAUGH | TONY SAICH |
JOSEPH W. ESHERICK | JONATHAN UNGER |
KEITH FORSTER | SHELLEY WARNER |
ROY FORWARD | ANDREA WORDEN |
ANNE GUNN | KATE WRIGHT |
An East Gate Book
First published 1991 by M.E. Sharpe
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The pro-democracy protests in China : reports from the provinces / edited by Jonathan Unger.
p. cm.
An East gate book.
Includes index.
ISBN 0-87332-836-1ISBN 0-87332-837-X (pbk.)
1. ChinaPolitics and government1976 2. StudentsChinaPolitical activity. I. Unger, Jonathan.
DS779.26.P76 1991
90-28984
CIP
ISBN 13: 9780873328371 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780873328364 (hbk)
To all those still imprisoned across China: from the Democracy Wall Movement of 197980 to the Democracy Movement of 1989 and beyond.
Contents
Jonathan Unger
Tony Saich,
Geremie Barm,
Roger W. Howard,
Anne Gunn,
Joseph W. Esherick,
Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger,
Andrea Worden,
Anita Chan,
Mary S. Erbaugh and Richard Curt Kraus,
Keith Forster,
Roy Forward,
Kate Wright,
Shelley Warner,
Ten of the thirteen chapters in this book first appeared in the January and July 1990 issues of The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, a twice-yearly academic magazine published at the Australian National Universitys Contemporary China Centre. As editor of the Journal, I was endeavouring to solicit papers by China specialists who had been on-the-spot observers of the extraordinary events that exploded across the breadth of China in the spring of 1989. I am grateful that every China specialist who was approached, from North America and Europe and Australia alike, responded by contributing their first-hand knowledge and analyses to this project. The results were of a quality and interest beyond my expectations.
Three additional papers were subsequently written for this book, and appear here for the first time. These are the chapters by Geremie Barm on the demonstrations in Beijing; by Anita Chan on the protest movement in a Hunan county town; and by Andrea Worden on the student movement in Changsha, Hunans capital city. These chapters help to round off the book by providing additional types of locations and analyses and insights, and a debt is owed to their authors.
Dianne Stacey, the Production Manager of the Journal, contributed her expertise and effort to the production of the book, from beginning to end. Elizabeth Kingdon, the Assistant Editor of the Journal, copy-edited and improved the book manuscript throughout. Keith Forster, the Journals Associate Editor (and author of the chapter on Hangzhou), contributed greatly in helping to critique most of the chapters. Without them this book would never have appeared.
Finally, on behalf of all of the contributors to this book, acknowledgement and thanks are due to all of the friends, interviewees and colleagues in China who shared with us their knowledge of their own country and their hopes of spring 1989.
J.U.
Geremie Barm is a Post-doctoral Fellow in the Australian National Universitys Department of East Asian History. He is co-editor (with John Minford) of Seeds of Fire: Chinese Voices of Conscience, and has recently edited with Linda Jaivin a sequel, New Ghosts, Old Dreams: Voices from Tiananmen Square.
Anita Chan, a sociologist, is currently writing a book at the ANUs Contemporary China Centre on the social crisis of the Hundred Flowers period. Dr Chan has published four books on China, including Children of Mao: Personality Development and Political Activism in the Red Guard Generation and Chen Village: The Recent History of a Peasant Community in Maos China (co-authored with Richard Madsen and Jonathan Unger).
Mary S. Erbaugh is Research Associate at the Center for Chinese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has written extensively on how children learn Mandarin, and is completing a book on the social and political forces which have shaped the modern Chinese language.
Joseph W. Esherick is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. His books include Reform & Revolution in China: The 1911 Revolution in Hunan and Hubei and The Origins of the Boxer Uprising. The latter book was awarded both the American Historical Associations John K. Fairbank Prize and the Association for Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Prize. Eshericks current research focuses on the revolutionary movement in the Shaan-Gan-Ning border region.
Keith Forster is a Research Fellow in the Contemporary China Centre at the Australian National University. His book on the Cultural Revolution, Rebellion and Factionalism in a Chinese Province: Zhejiang, 19661976, was published by M.E. Sharpe in 1990.
Roy Forward is Lecturer in Australian Studies at East China Normal University in Shanghai, and has been Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Queensland, Senior Private Secretary to the Minister for Social Security, and Lecturer at the Australian National Gallery.
Anne Gunn is a PhD student at the Australian National University. She was formerly assistant editor of the
