Almost a Revolution - Hardcover

Shen Tong; Marianne Yen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395546931 ISBN 13: 9780395546932

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1990

Synopsis

One of the student leaders of the demonstrations in Tiananmen Square describes growing up in China, his rise to leadership in the student movement, the Tiananmen massacre, and his escape to the U.S.

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From Publishers Weekly:

Shen Tong was a student leader in China's pro-democracy movement whose dreams were crushed in the Tiananmen Square massacre. Told with modesty and wisdom, written with former Washington Post reporter Yen, his remarkable autobiography is also a spiritual history of China's struggle for human rights. The first half of the book is straightforward, limpid narrative. His parents, reluctant members of the People's Liberation Army, are labeled "counterrevolutionary collaborators" for copying political poems. He discovers Beethoven, Gandhi, Einstein and sexual love. The book's second half is a heartbreaking and electrifying journal of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre and the two months of protests leading up to it. Now living near Boston, Shen Tong saw firsthand what others have since confirmed: most of the thousands gunned down on the approaches to the square were not students but workers. No one who cares about modern China should miss this document. Photos. Author tour.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0395546931
• ISBN 13: 9780395546932
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 342