Publisher's Synopsis
On June 4 1989, the world watched in horror as government troops opened fire on thousands of democracy campaigners in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China. "Children of the Dragon: The Story of Tiananmen Square" is the first book to present the Chinese side of the story in the words of the student and pro-democracy leaders themselves.;Created by Human Rights in China, an association of Chinese scientists, scholars and students formed to combat restrictions on civil liberties in China, "Children of the Dragon" includes never-before published photographs of the Tiananmen Square massacre and an oral history of the events - the death of Hu Yaobang, the hunger strike, the declaring of martial law - leading up to the June 4 crack-down.
