Behind the Gate: Inventing Students in Beijing

by Fabio Lanza

On May 4, 1919, thousands of students protested the Versailles treaty in Beijing. Seventy years later, another generation demonstrated in Tiananmen Square. Climbing the Monument of the People's Heroes, these protestors stood against a relief of their predecessors, merging with their own mythology while consciously deploying their activism. Through an investigation of twentieth-century Chinese student protest, Fabio Lanza considers the marriage...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231152388
• ISBN13: 9780231152389
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"