Tiananmen Square, Waco, and Posse Comitatus

Details the mixture of cultural and political influences that collided in the Tiananmen Square Massacre of 1989, and that continue to swirl into the cultural, political, and economic future of Communist China.

Examines the political, economic, and cultural legacy of Communist Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping, from the June 4, 1989 Tiananmen Square Massacre forward.

Documents the changing flux of social, economic, and political forces in modern Communist China, which threaten to plunge the most populous nation on Earth into chaos if corruption and societal dislocations are not brought under control.

Chinese student leader Shen Tong offers his memoirs and analysis of the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre on June 4, 1989 in which hopes for meaningful political reform in Communist China were crushed under the tread of Red Army tanks.

A Western business-woman and journalist documents her impressions of the common folk of the People's Republic of China and the events surrounding the Tiananmen Square Massacre in 1989.

A source book of documents of democratic dissent under Chinese Communism, most of them previously untranslated and difficult to find in the West. Ranging from eye-witness accounts of a massacre to theoretical critiques of Chinese Marxist thought, these essays are among the most powerful and important works of Chinese dissident literature written in this century.

A riveting chronicle of Communist oppression and the struggle for democratic reform in China from 1976 to 1993. Reveals some of the first details of the years following Tiananmen Square focusing on three leading figures in the democracy movement. Features narratives from scores of other key figures in the movement told in their own words.

Documents how President Bush declined to help the students protesting for democracy in Tiananmen Square in order to further American business interests in Communist China and to gain Red Chinese support for the war against Iraq.

A rich collection of translations of original writings and speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement--flyers, posters, hand-bills, poems, articles from underground newspapers, and transcripts of tapes. Beginning with the student discontent and restlessness that pervaded Chinese campuses in the winter of 1989, and continuing through to the violent suppression of the Democracy Movement in June with the bloody army takeover of Tiananmen Square and sweeping arrests of activists, the story shows how moderate demands on the part of students grew into a mass anti-government protest and resistance to martial law in Beijing.

A collection of translations of primary source documents from Communist China and other sources.

A Canadian Sinologist tells both the nonspecialist and the China expert what happened at Tiananmen Square, based on a study of source documents and interviews.

A political scientist examines the economic and political context of the 1989 Chinese student pro-democracy movement that culminated in the Tiananmen Square massacre.

An ethnic Chinese from Canada returns to Communist China to teach English, and becomes involved with students in the pro-democracy movement that was crushed at the Tiananmen Square massacre.

Essays examining the implications of suppression of the 1989 Tiananmen Square pro-democracy movement by the People's Republic of China.

An American journalist and Rainbow Coalition activist weighs in on the pro-democracy movement in the People's Republic of China.

An anthropologist presents a study in which the 1989 Chinese People's Movement is analyzed against the background of eight months of anthropological fieldwork in Beijing. The fieldwork began as a study of the dynamics of Chinese state socialist society under the impact of ten years of reform, approaching the problem from the perspective of the common Beijing resident. Pieke established that the increased role of the market economy and the use of personal connections forced Beijing citizens to engage in actions going against the grain of socialist ideology in which many still believed. Ideology and practice had increasingly little to do with each other and a deeply-felt moral crisis of society was the result.

The author argues that the mass movement, which climaxed in Beijing, can be understood only if attention is given to the external environment that provided both opportunities and constraints to the interactions of participating groups, to the shifting participants and their goals and interests, and to the historical and cultural factors that guided the behavior of those participants. Unlike other works on this topic, The Struggle for Tiananmen analyzes the movement from its beginning to its end--presenting the entire process, providing information from both the authorities and non-student participants.

Juvenile literature. Documents the pro-democracy movements in both Eastern Europe and Red China.

A collection of essays motivated by the slaughter of Chinese students in Tiananmen Square.

The real story behind the McCarthy era. De-classified documents show that in the Amerasia case, there really was a breach of American government security by Communists.

Documents Japanese atrocities in World War II that caused even the Nazi's to object. Featured on KFYI.

How Bill Clinton's policies (and possible Communist Chinese influence on U.S. elections) threaten the United States, Taiwan, Japan, and the Pacific Rim. The Red Chinese military buildup, economic warfare, and industrial espionage.

Two Congressional researchers document how the Clinton Administration facilitated transfer of sensitive military technology to the Communist Chinese. Was it incompetence? Bribery? Treason? Each American must decide for themself.

Picking up where 'Year of the Rat left off, documents what is most charitably described as incompetence in the Clinton Administration, and more bluntly called treason. Security leaks and loss of military technology.

Memoirs of a Franciscan Monk born in the Italian Alps, who served as a missionary in China and Guatemala, becoming Bishop of Zacapa.

A sociological analysis of the Chinese pro-democracy student movement that culminated in the brutal suppression by the People's Liberation Army.

An American historian examines the pro-democracy movement that culminated in the massacre of student protesters in Tiananmen Square, People's Republic of China, in 1989.

An examination of the social dynamics of the interaction between the mass media and the protesters during the pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square.

Written from the viewpoint of an independent mainland Chinese journalist, this book is an excellent reference for the events of Spring 1989. Includes translations of source material from both sides of the conflict.

This study examines how and when potential resistance may be transformed into an actual social movement. Its three cases - the Taiping Rebellion in the 1840s and 1850s, ghost worship in modern Taiwan and the aftermath of the 1989 demonstrations in Tiananmen Square - contribute to ongoing debates among historians, social scientists and literary theorists on the relationship between culture and resistance. Resistance, Chaos and Control in China compares active resistance movements with everyday actions that imply unspoken resistance.

Examines higher education in China from 1861 to the present, including the student pro-democracy movement of 1989.

American and Taiwanese scholars discuss the implications of the massacre of the pro-democracy student protesters at Tiananmen Square by the Red Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Interviews with students and other Chinese citizens in the days leading up to the pro-democracy movement in Red China that was crushed by the Communists in Tiananmen Square in 1989.

Essays and source documents relating to the massacre of pro-democracy Chinese students by the Peoples' Liberation Army in 1989.

Essays and source documents relating to the massacre of pro-democracy Chinese students by the Peoples' Liberation Army in 1989.

Includes information from recent Congressional Hearings; documents government mis-handling of the situation and suggests that the government conspired to cover-up their shortcomings.

A survivor of the Waco massacre tells the inside story of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, and what really happened at Mount Carmel. David Thibodeau reveals the unconventional life and beliefs of the Branch Davidian community, and also presents evidence that calls into question the actions of the Federal government.

Drawing on interviews with survivors of Koresh's movement (which dates back to 1935, long before Koresh was born), on published accounts, on trial transcripts, on esoteric religious tracts and audiotapes that tell us who Koresh was and why people followed him, and most of all on secret documents that the government has not released to the public yet, Reavis has uncovered the real story from beginning to end, including the trial that followed. He concludes that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh and even less to raid the compound at Mount Carmel. The government lied to the public about most of what happened - about who fired the first shots, about drug allegations, about child abuse. The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mount Carmel - and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people.

Intolerance of unconventional religions and a failure to communicate lead to the Waco disaster. Includes David Koresh's previously unpublished manuscript on the Book of Revelation.

BATF and FBI abuse of power threatens individual rights, the rule of law, and due process. Extensive documentation.

Essays from various points of view explore the history of the Branch Davidians and David Koresh, why the group was labeled a 'cult,' how authorities used unsubstantiated allegations of child abuse to strengthen their case against the sect, the media's role, the orchestration of public relations by government officials, the ideologies of the journalists themselves, and the role played by 'experts' and 'consultants' in defining such conflicts.

A military, police and government reporter with a taste for the occult casts a jaundiced eye on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians: [Koresh] loved God. He loved guns. He was the Evil Messiah. 'I am Christ.' -- self-proclaimed Messiah David Koresh, to his followers. He promised them Heaven ... instead, he took them to Hell ....

FBI crime labs are not trustworthy.

Washington bureau chief of The Sunday Telegraph (London) documents a pattern of intimidation, harassment, and even strange deaths that seem to be standard operating procedure in the Clinton administrations in both Arkansas and Washington. Also raises questions about Waco, the Oklahoma City bombing, and possible obstruction of justice.

The author argues that the force used by the FBI during the sieges at the Branch Davidian community in Waco, Texas, and at Randy Weaver's cabin in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, followed by an unwillingness to admit to errors in judgment, fueled the radical right's suspicion and hatred of the federal government and provided the motive for the explosion in Oklahoma City.

Juvenile literature. Explores the roots of the militia movement's growth in the United States, its connection with mainstream society, the ideologies of anti-government groups, and the tragedies at Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Oklahoma City.

Commentary and analysis of the Waco Incident from many points of view, ranging from The Baptist Joint Committee on Public Affairs to Eldridge Cleaver.

The roots of the Branch Davidians in the Seventh Day Adventists and how we can prevent future tragedies like the torching near Waco.

The Waco Branch Davidian disaster as seen through the eyes of the chief of media relations for the Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Texas Rangers.

An insurance investigator and literary critic ventures into non-fiction, examining religious cults, the Branch Davidians and the Waco disaster.

A collection of sixteen articles delivered at Princeton University. The volume covers messianic expectations from biblical time up to modern and contemporaneous adaptations, whereby the focus lies on the messianic concept within Judaism: diversity and variety of messianic expectations in antiquity; messianic movements at the time of the Crusades and around the fifth millennium (1240); the 'Pseudo'-Messiah Sabbatai Zvi in the early modern period; the philosophers Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin with respect to their thinking about messianism as well as the Lubavitch movement.

Juvenile literature: 4-8 grade. A fictional dramatization of the Waco Branch Davidian disaster.

Juvenile literature for young adults, details David Koresh's rise to head of the Branch Davidians, his buildup of firearms and followers, and his eventual deadly defiance of the United States government at Waco, Texas.

The BATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Firearms, and Tobacco) version of what happened to the Branch Davidian community at Waco Texas.