INDEX OF READINGS AVAILABLE AT THIS WEBSITE:
Events of Beijing Spring 1989:
Black, George and Robin Munro, Black Hands of Beijing (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993) - includes excerpts on key events of late May, the story of one worker's experience during the protests, and a detailed account of the night of June 3-4.
Unger, Jonathan, editor, The Pro-Democracy Protests in China: Reports from the Provinces (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1991). Includes the following excerpts:Beijing Days, Beijing Nights by Geremie Barmé
Voices from the Protest Movement in Chongqing: Class Accents and Class Tensions by Anita Chan and Jonathan Unger
The 1989 Democracy Movement in Fujian and Its Aftermath by Mary S. Erbaugh and Richard Curt Kraus
Xi'an Spring by Joseph W. Esherick
The Popular Protest in Hangzhou by Keith Forster
Despair and Hope: A Changsha Chronicle by Andrea WordenWalder, Andrew G. and Gong Xiaoxia, Workers in the Tiananmen Protests: The Politics of the Beijing Workers' Autonomous Federation, The Australian Journal of Chinese Affairs, No. 29, January 1993 (now known as The China Journal).
Original source documents from 1989:
April 26 Renmin Ribao [People's Daily] editorial
May 18 meeting between government and student representatives
May 19 Li Peng's speech declaring martial law
June 9 Deng Xiaoping's speech to martial law unit commanders
A Chinese government account of Beijing Spring 1989:
The Truth About the Turmoil, edited by the Editorial Board of The Truth about the Beijing Turmoil (Beijing: Beijing Publishing House, 1990).
The role of the media during Beijing Spring 1989:
Black, George and Robin Munro, Black Hands of Beijing (New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1993) - includes an excerpt on the foreign media coverage of June 3-4.
Hertsgaard, Mark, "China Coverage Strong on What, Weak on Why?" Rolling Stone, Sept. 21, 1989.
Jakobson, Linda, Lies in Ink, Truth in Blood: The Role and Impact of the Chinese Media During the Beijing Spring of '89, Discussion Paper D-6 (Cambridge, MA: Joan Shorenstein Barone Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1990).
Turmoil at Tiananmen: A Study of U.S. Press Coverage of the Beijing Spring of 1989 (Cambridge, MA: Joan Shorenstein Barone Center, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1992).
Film-related themes and issues:
Barmé, Geremie, "History for the Masses," from Jonathan Unger, ed., Using the Past to Serve the Present (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 1993).
Barmé, Geremie, Shades of Mao (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996) - excerpts on the cult of Mao that has persisted despite his death.
Barmé, Geremie, "To Screw Foreigners is Patriotic: China's Avant-Garde Nationalists," in Jonathan Unger, ed., Chinese Nationalism, (Armonk, New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1996).
Konrád, George (with Iván Szelényi), "Revolution or Reform," from Konrád, The Melancholy of Rebirth: Essays from Post-Communist Central Europe, 1989-1994 (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995).
Kraus, Richard Curt, Brushes With Power: Modern Politics and the Chinese Art of Calligraphy (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991) - includes excerpts on Chinese calligraphy and its relationship to politics and power, and on the 1976 Tiananmen Square Incident.
Lenin, V.I., "The State and Revolution" (1917).
Leys, Simon, "Human Rights in China," from The Burning Forest: Essays on Chinese Culture and Politics (New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1986).
Leys, Simon, excerpt on "the destruction of the city of Peking" from Chinese Shadows (New York: Viking Penguin Inc., 1978).
Liu Xiaobo, "That Holy Word, 'Revolution'," from Popular Protest and Political Culture in Modern China, Second Edition, edited by Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom and Elizabeth J. Perry (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994).
Nathan, Andrew J., "Chinese Democracy in 1989: Continuity and Change," in Problems of Communism, vol. 38, no. 5, Sept.-Oct. 1989.
On the Eve - China '89 Symposium (Bolinas, California, 27-29 April, 1989), includes discussions of Chinese politics and culture, and the key issues faced in China in the late 1980s and 1990s, with introductory essays by Marlowe Hood, Perry Link, Geremie R. Barmé, Andrew J. Nathan, Leo Ou-fan Lee, and Merle Goldman.
Schell, Orville, "China's Andrei Sakharov," an article about Fang Lizhi, from The Atlantic, May 1988.
Spence, Jonathan D., "The Gate and the Square," from Children of the Dragon (New York: Collier Books, Macmillan Publishing Company, 1990).
Yau Ma Tei, "Maosoleum," from Geremie Barmé and John Minford, editors, Seeds of Fire (New York: The Noonday Press, 1989).
Chinese music and the original music in the film:
Barmé, Geremie, "Official Bad Boys or True Rebels?" Human Rights Tribune, Volume III, Number 4, Winter 1992, pp. 17-20.
Kraus, Richard Curt, excerpt on "The East is Red," from Pianos and Politics in China: Middle-Class Ambitions and the Struggle over Western Music (New York: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Pevsner, Mark, "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" Original Music Program Notes, 1996.
Reaction to "The Gate of Heavenly Peace":
Barmé, Geremie, "The Rhetoric of Democratic Denunciation," excerpt from "Totalitarian Nostalgia," from In The Red: Contemporary Chinese Culture (New York: Columbia University Press, forthcoming 1997).
White, Jerry, "Squaring Off Over Tiananmen: Critics Clamor at the Gate of Heavenly Peace," The Independent, January/February 1996.
Woodward, Richard, "Anatomy of a Massacre," The Village Voice, 4 June 1996.
Ye Ren, "The Democracy Movement in Exile is Trapped by Communist Mentality," published in the July and August 1995 issues of The 90's.
Earlier films by the Long Bow Group:
One Village in China: A Review Symposium, Oral History Review, 15 (Fall, 1987).