Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square

by Orville Schell, Andrew J. Nathan, Human Rights in China

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0020335202
• ISBN13: 9780020335207
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Collier Books
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 3.05 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Children of the Dragon

I ran across this book in my university library looking for sources for a history essay on Tienanmen Square and had to have a copy for myself. There are numerous reprints of documents and discourse from both the students, protesters and political figures in this book. One of the more captivating aspects of this book were the photos, this book had more photos than any of the other sources I found for that essay. I would have bought it for the photos alone. This was one the best books I ran across on the subject. It read well and the information was well organized. It also went through great lengths to familiarize the reader with key players in the movement.

A Heartrending Story

As an amateur historian, I like to read books about historical events that are to the point, without belaboring details, but that read "like a novel". Children of the Dragon opened my eyes to the Tiananmen Square incident in a big way with personal accounts of many of the Chinese who were actually there and involved in what happened, and with many photos that captured the action and emotion. This book is a must-read for complacent Americans to learn to appreciate their own democracy, and to support those who die to have one. My heart went out to China and those brave, idealistic students who tried to change it.

riveting accounts of massacre from different points of view

This compilation of eye-witness accounts gathered from students, foreign and domestic journalists, professors, PLA men, and workers serves as a memorial for the Tiananment incident, and provides the reader with a minute-by-minute chronology of events. Some of those events are the hunger strike, Gorbachev's visit, student meetings with the leadership, and power struggles within student factions... "Children Of the Dragon" also has printed many of the statements and declarations made by members of student and government factions. This is an excellent, riveting account of the events surrounding the massacre, from Hu Yaobang's death on April 15th to the CCP's crackdown and pursuit of "instigators" through June 5-6.