The Impact of China's 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

摘要

A cursory web search on Google Scholar turns up 2,070 books and journal articles with "Tiananmen Massacre" in the title or abstract. And that's just in English. Search the Chinese-language version of Google Scholar for "June 4 Movement," and over 300,000 references pop up. Given such a vast quantity of reference materials, Sinologues could easily be forgiven for greeting with a colossal yawn the arrival of yet another volume on the events of spring 1989. What unlit corners of this saga remain to be illuminated? What stones remain unturned? In this new volume, under the editorship of Jean-Philippe Beja, 15 well-known and respected scholars address two important but under-examined aspects of the Tiananmen story: the ongoing struggle for control over the historical memory of the traumatic events of 1989, and the omnipresent shadow cast by the these events over China's subsequent foreign and domestic politics and policies.