Cover & Notes for Contributors

Boards, Contents & Contributors

Foreword

Why We Remember June Fourth
Perry Link

Prologues

Thirty Years after Tiananmen: The PRC as an Emerging Global Threat to Freedom
Larry Diamond

Assessing China’s Situation and Challenges
Joseph Yu-shek Cheng

From Protests to Crackdown

April 27th, 1989: The Day the Chinese People Stood up
Jean-Philippe Béja

June 4th, 1989: A Founding Non-Event, a Breaking Point in Time and Space
Michel Bonnin

The Tiananmen Military Coup d’État of 1989: A Neglected Aspect of History from a Comparative-Politics Perspective
Guoguang Wu

China Post-Tiananmen

Liu Xiaobo and the Citizens’ Rights Movement: A New Face for China’s Democracy Movement in 2003
Perry Link and Weiping Cui

From 1989 to “1984”: Tiananmen Massacre and China’s High-tech Totalitarianism
Teng Biao

Interpreting China Post-1989 Tiananmen Square Protests: Discursive Formation of “Sinicization of Everything”
Wai-Kwok Benson Wong

Transborder Reverberations

Tiananmen Protests and Lessons for Democratization in Vietnam
Nguyen Quang A

A Review of the Consensus-building of One Country, Two Systems in the 1980s and 1990s
I-Lun Shih and Alex Yong-kang Chow

Commentary Notes

The Hard Side of CCP’s Soft Power: Confucius Institute
Fernando Romeo

Postscript

Thirty Years after the Tiananmen Protests and June Fourth Massacre: Requiem for a Chinese Dream – and Recharting the Path of Nonviolent Action and Civil Societal Movement to China’s Democratic Future
Emile Kok-Kheng Yeoh