Retrospect and Reflection - 17 Students in Exile on June 4

From July 17 to 24, 1991, seventeen student leaders who had participated in and led the 1989 student movement and later went into exile held a "Seminar on Historical Review and Reflection on the 1989 Student Movement" in Paris, France, to review and reflect on this great democracy movement in modern Chinese history. This book is organized according to the audio recordings of the speeches made at the seminar. It covers the following topics: the Peking University School Society Fever in 1988; the establishment of the Peking University Preparatory Committee; the founding of the Peking University Higher Education Union; the initiation of the hunger strike; the founding of the Hunger Strike Group; the founding of the Dialogue Group; the imposition of martial law; the founding of the Commanding Office of the Defense of Tiananmen Square; the founding of the Joint Meeting of the Capital; the establishment of martial law; the establishment of the Tiananmen Square Defense Command; the establishment of the Joint Meeting of Various Sectors in the Capital; the retreat from Tiananmen Square; the overseas student movement, etc. It includes rare historical material.