Book contents
- June Fourth
- New Approaches to Asian History
- June Fourth
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part One China’s 1980s
- Part Two The Tiananmen Protests
- Part Three Massacre
- Part Four Nationwide
- Part Five The Aftermath
- 24 The Purge as History
- 25 “Rioters”
- 26 Don’t Call It a Yundong
- 27 Going through the Motions
- 28 Falsehoods and Defiance
- 29 Aftermath
- 30 The Future of June Fourth
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
27 - Going through the Motions
from Part Five - The Aftermath
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 April 2021
- June Fourth
- New Approaches to Asian History
- June Fourth
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Part One China’s 1980s
- Part Two The Tiananmen Protests
- Part Three Massacre
- Part Four Nationwide
- Part Five The Aftermath
- 24 The Purge as History
- 25 “Rioters”
- 26 Don’t Call It a Yundong
- 27 Going through the Motions
- 28 Falsehoods and Defiance
- 29 Aftermath
- 30 The Future of June Fourth
- Further Reading
- Index
- Series page
Summary
Archival documents from a construction and engineering team show that people went through the motions in a slapdash way when filling out forms detailing what they had done in April, May, and June 1989.
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- June FourthThe Tiananmen Protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989, pp. 223 - 227Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021