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Wang Dan’s Shooting Star
Author(s)

Michael Cormier

Publisher

Goose Lane Editions

Publication Year

2013

Collections

Witnesses to Global Conflict: Canadian Authors' Accounts

ISBN: 9780864929020-06

Categories:

  • Sociology & Anthropology → Activism & Social Movements
  • International Development → Asia
  • History → Asia
  • Research & Theory → Literature Analysis
  • History → Modern
  • Political Science → Political Activism

 
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Wang Dan’s Shooting Star

From: The Legacy of Tiananmen Square

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This chapter begins with the author meeting with Wang Den in London, one of the student leaders of the Tiananmen Square Uprising. The chapter goes on to provide a detailed day-by-day account of the uprising and the Chinese government’s response.

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Contributors

Michael Cormier

Michel Cormier was the CBC and Radio-Canada television correspondent in China from 2006 to 2010, where he followed China’s meteoric rise as an economic superpower. Cormier was recently appointed executive director of news and current affairs for Radio-Canada. He is the author of several books, including La Russie de mes illusions, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award in 2007.

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Canada Council for the Arts
Canada
Nova Scotia

This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada. Ce projet est financé en partie par le gouvernement du Canada.

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