Text from The Tiananmen Papers – 3

The Tiananmen Papers: the Chinese leadership’s decision to use force against their own people – in their own words
Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link
Ch.1: April 8-23: The Student Movement Begins 
Cont’d
The Leaders’ vigilance
[In the afternoon of April 17,] Li Tieying reported separately to Zhao Ziyang and Li Peng on some of the campus memorial [...]

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Text from The Tiananmen Papers – 2

The Tiananmen Papers: the Chinese leadership’s decision to use force against their own people – in their own words
Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link (compiled by Zhang Liang)
 Ch.1: April 8-23: The Student Movement Begins
Cont’d
April 15-17: initial reaction at home and abroad
From the time of Hu’s death to the morning of April 17, some [...]

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Text from The Tiananmen Papers – 1

The Tiananmen Papers: the Chinese leadership’s decision to use force against their own people – in their own words
Edited by Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link
Ch.1: April 8-23: The Student Movement Begins
EDITORS’ NOTE:
The death by heart attack of the popular pro-reform leader Hu Yaobang on April 15 [1989] fell like a spark into the highly [...]

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