(1995) Basil Blackwell.

From the publisher: In this outstanding reinterpretation — and extension — of the Critical Theory tradition, Craig Calhoun surveys the origins, fortunes and prospects of this most influential of theoretical approaches. Moving with ease from the early Frankfurt School to Habermas, to contemporary debates over postmodernism, feminism and nationalism, Calhoun breathes new life into Critical Social Theory, showing how it can learn from the past and contribute to the future.

(1994) University of California Press.

Within six weeks, these students would experience peaks of exhilaration as their movement grew beyond their short-term expectations, troughts of depression as it seemd to falter from ineffective leadership and lack of direction, and rage as soldiers following government orders killed hundrers or even thousands of protesters.

From Colina MacDougall, Times Literary Supplement: "Calhoun's analysis of the whos and the whys of the Tiananmen protest is excellent."

From the publisher: Prize for Best Recent Book in Political Sociology, The American Sociological Association.

Calhoun, C. (1997). Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. University of California Press.