Deadly Decision in Beijing: Succession Politics, Protest Repression and the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre

by Center on Contemporary China

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Mon, Oct 7, 2024

4:30 PM – 6 PM EDT (GMT-4)

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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In a play-by-play account of the elite politics that led to the military crackdown, this talk addresses the repression of the protest in the context of political leadership succession. Beneath the political drama, "Deadly Decision in Beijing" explores the authoritarian regime's perpetual crisis of leadership transition and its impact on popular movements.

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Louis A. Simpson International Building, Room A71

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Yang Su

Professor of Sociology

UC Irvine

Yang Su is a Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine and a scholar of social movements, revolution, and political violence. His earlier book Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution (2011) was a winner of the Barrington Moore Book Award and an Honourable Mention of the Charles Tilly Book Award of the American Sociological Association.

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Center on Contemporary China (OWNER)