Publications
(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.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1 Mounting protest
Chapter 2 Fear, uncertainty, and success beyond expectations
Chapter 3 Crisis, climax, and disaster
Chapter 4 Spontaneity and organization
Chapter 5 Civil society and public sphere
Chapter 6 Cultural crisis
Chapter 7 Claiming Democracy
Conclusion: To be worthy of the cause