↑ Analyst Richard Baum described their actions as "...a mock-ceremonial remonstrance... presenting their scrolled-up demands on hands and knees in the stylized, obsequious manner of an imperial petition."[31] Political scientist Lucian Pye similarly described the act as "..in line with the classic Chinese tradition of aggrieved parties wailing before the Yamen door, of publicly dramatizing their unhappiness by petitioning officialdom... [they] sincerely believed that the officials would have to respond by meeting with them."[32]
↑ Nicholas Kristof. (June 3, 1989). "Beijing Residents Block Army Move Near City Center: Tear Gas said to be Fired". The New York Times. Retrieved November 19, 2010, from ProQuest Historical Newspapers The New York Times (1851–2007). (Document ID: 115057724).
↑ Jeffrey Richelson & Michael Evans (June 1, 1999). On the Brink: Document 9 "Secretaries Morning Summary, 3 June 1989". Retrieved November 16, 2010, from Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB16/documents/09-01.htm
↑ James P. Sterba, Adi Ignatius and Robert S. Greenberger, “Class Struggle: China’s Harsh Actions Threaten to Set Back 10-Year Reform Drive — Suspicions of Westernization Are Ascendant, and Army Has a Political Role Again — A Movement Unlikely to Die” Wall Street Journal, June 5, 1989
↑ Anderlini, Jamil (1 tháng 6 năm 2014). “Tiananmen Square: the long shadow”. Financial Times. Truy cập ngày 2 tháng 6 năm 2014. The extraction missions, aided by MI6, the UK’s Secret Intelligence Service, and the CIA, according to many accounts, had scrambler devices, infrared signallers, night-vision goggles and weapons.
1 2 Lim, Louisa (2014). The People's Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited. New York: Oxford University Press. tr. 70. ISBN9780190227913.
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