Voices from Tiananmen Square: Beijing Spring and the Democracy Movement

F. Quei Quo is a professor of Political Science at Simon Fraser
University.

This is a documentary of the June 4, 1989, Tiananmen incident in China.
The student demonstration in the Square resulted in bloody suppression
when senior leaders of the Chinese Communist Party called in the army.
This volume provides materials from the writings, interviews, and
comments of those involved. Most importantly, it tells why the revolt
took place, from the perspective of the participants.

There are two sides to every story, and the Chinese Government’s
official version differs significantly from what appears in this book.
With that in mind, however, this volume is informative and enlightening.
Unfortunately, the foreword is highly value-laden and contains many
mistakes in facts and names.

This book is a worthwhile collection for historians of modern China, as
it gives the story, albeit one-sided, of one of the most important
events in the nation’s modernization process.