Abstract: Chinese student leader Shen Tong offers his memoirs and analysis of the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989 in which hopes for meaningful political reform in Communist China were crushed under the tread of Red Army tanks.
Keywords: book review, international, current_events, Communist Red Mainland China, Tiananmen Square Massacre.

Title: Almost a Revolution
Author: Tong Shen, Marianne Yen
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: July 1998
ISBN: 0472085573 		Click below to buy the book
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CONTENTS

Map of Beijing

Preface

Part I : Beginnings

Chapter 1 : Avenue of Eternal Peace

Chapter 2 : Billy Clubs and Violins

Chapter 3 : Blue Dove and Misty Poets

Chapter 4 : "Young Leaf in Spring"

Chapter 5 : Beijing University

Chapter 6 : Year of the Dragon

Part II : Movement

Chapter 7 : Hu Yaobang Is Dead

Chapter 8 : The Spirit of May Fourth

Chapter 9 : Dialogue Delegation

Chapter 10 : Gorbachev Is Coming

Chapter 11 : Martial Law and the Goddess of Democracy

Chapter 12 : Bloody Sunday and Farewell

Epilogue

     

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