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Donald C. C Lee

Eclipse of the Bright Moon

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In a plea for political reform, Chinese students and workers alike take matters into their own hands by running poster campaigns, holding demonstrations, and protesting the communist party. But when the government begins to feel threatened by the activists, the peaceful protests lead to riots and what is now known in history as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.In mid-April 1989, Dan Norton was finishing up his year as a professor at Shaanxi Teachers University. Little did he know that in two weeks' time, he would be sought out by the police under threat of Chinese prison. After receiving documents politically sensitive to the Chinese government,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-7443-0319-3
  • EAN: 9780744303193
  • Produktnummer: 36232250
  • Verlag: Chicago Review Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 384 S.
  • Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.6 cm 686 g
  • Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken mit Schutzumschlag
  • Gewicht: 686

Über den Autor


Born in San Francisco in 1936, Donald C. Lee received his BA in History and Philosophy at Pomona College. He was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Tübingen, Germany. After serving as a Marine Corps Officer in Okinawa and the Philippines and studying French at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, he earned a master's degree in Philosophy at Berkeley-during the Free Speech Movement and anti-war protests-and a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. He taught Philosophy at the University of New Mexico for twenty-five years and at Shaanxi Teachers University in Xi'an, China, the year ending in the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. Author of academic books, articles, and reviews, he turned to fiction in his retirement years. He enjoys snorkeling, traveling, hiking, and lives in Kirkland, Washington.

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