Marc Lambert is a graduate student of China Studies and Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, focusing on China’s ongoing democracy movement., Melanie Manion is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Rochester., Michel Oksenberg is a professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor., Lawrence R. Sullivan is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, and a research associate at the East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

• Chapter 1 Polarized China; Part 101 Antecedents; Chapter 2 Prelude; Chapter 3 Neo-Authoritarianism; Chapter 4 Intellectual Dissent; Part 102 Beijing Spring; Chapter 5 The Crisis Begins; Chapter 6 The Political Struggle for Tiananmen; Chapter 7 Martial Law; Chapter 8 Premonitions of Violence; Chapter 9 The Aftermath;