Memories of Tiananmen

The only booklength account of collective remembering and analysis of how the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019.

Francis L.F. Lee is Director and Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association and Founding Co-chair of the Society for Hong Kong Studies. He is also the chief editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication. Joseph Man Chan is Professor Emeritus at the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association.

Acknowledgments, List of abbreviations, Chapter 1 Introduction, Chapter 2 Memory Formation and the Valorization of Commemoration, Chapter 3 Memory Mobilization, Chapter 4 Intergenerational Memory Transmission, Chapter 5 The Struggle for Memory Institutionalization, Chapter 6 The Challenge of Localism and Memory Repair, Chapter 7 Changing Attitudes toward Tiananmen?, Chapter 8 Digital Media and Memory Balkanization, Chapter 9 Conclusion, Epilogue, Appendix A, References, Index