There are many books dealing with China and the events leading up to Tiananmen Square. Here are just a few.
China in ten words by Yu Hua. The author, one of China's most applauded novelists, captures the heart of China and Chinese people in a profound and sometimes surprising way. Each of the 10 chapters is a description of the author's homeland in relation to one word: people, leader, reading, writing, revolution, disparity, grassroots, copycat, bamboozle and Lu Xun (an influential early 20th-century writer). Publisher: Pantheon, 2011. ISBN-13: 978-0307379351.
Red China Blues: My Long March From Mao to Now
by Jan Wong. The Chinese Canadian author takes us on a informative and
insightful journey through three decades of Chinese history. She
describes in a smart, witty and often ironic style her transformation
from a true believer of Maoism to someone who witnessed the devastating
Tiananmen Square uprising which led - among many other things - to her
disenchantment with the "workers paradise". Publisher: Anchor, 1997. ISBN-13: 978-0385482325.
The Iron House: A Memoir of the Chinese Democracy Movement and the Tiananmen Massacre by Michael S. Duke: China Rising: The Meaning of
Tiananmen, by Lee Feigon. Review by: David Strand. The Journal of Asian
Studies, Vol. 50, No. 3 (August 1991), pp. 660-662.
The Power of Tiananmen: State-Society Relations and the 1989 Beijing Student Movement by Dingxin Zhao. Zhao's award-winning examination of the multifaceted and interconnected changes in the society-state relationship in China around the Tiananmen Massacre. Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 2004. ISBN-13: 978-0226982618.
Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 (Asian Voices) by Philip J. Cunningham. The author, an American-born Asia specialist, lived on campus at Beijing Normal University during the Tiananmen Square Protests and provides us with a street-level view and a fresh perspective of this tragedy. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0742566736.
Tiananmen Moon: Inside the Chinese Student Uprising of 1989 (Asian Voices) by Philip J. Cunningham. The author, an American-born Asia specialist, lived on campus at Beijing Normal University during the Tiananmen Square Protests and provides us with a street-level view and a fresh perspective of this tragedy. Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; 2010. ISBN-13: 978-0742566736.
