Author | Feng Congde |
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Language | Chinese |
Publisher | Morning Bell Press (Hong Kong first edition) Free Culture Press (Taiwan first edition) Suyuan Books (Hong Kong second edition) |
Publication date | 2009 (first edition), 2013 (second edition) |
Publication place | United States |
Media type | Print (Paperback); also audio book |
Pages | 608 pages (Taiwan edition) |
ISBN | 978-9-881-78048-5 (Taiwan first edition) ISBN 978-988-17804-8-5 (Hong Kong first edition) ISBN 978-988-16442-6-8 (Hong Kong second edition) |
OCLC | 369552980 |
A Tiananmen Journal: Republic on the Square (in Chinese: 六四日記:廣場上的共和國) by Feng Congde (封从德) was first published in May 2009 in Hong Kong. This book records the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre from April 15, 1989, to June 4, 1989, in detail. Author Feng Congde is one of the student leader in the protest and his day-by- day diary entries, record every activity during the protest including the start of student protests in Peking University, the activities of major student leaders, important events, and unexposed stories about student organizations and their complex decision making.
The content of A Tiananmen Journal is based on Feng's Memo of 1989 Student Protests (八九學運備忘錄), first drafted in 1990.[1] To ensure the details of the activities are in correct order and what he heard from others during the protests was truthful, Feng started editing his Memo and adding footnotes in the following eighteen years, before finally publishing them in the book, A Tiananmen Journal.