Collection of China's Spring 1989 Democracy Movement, 1988-1997, bulk 1989-1990
Summary Information
At a Glance
- Bib ID:
- 3872639 View CLIO record
- Creator(s):
- Repository:
- C. V. Starr East Asian Library
- Physical Description:
- 11.5 Linear Feet (10 document boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 1 audio-visual box)
- Language(s):
- English , Chinese , Chinese .
- Access:
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This collection is located off-site.
Some unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are (available online / available onsite) via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email starr@library.columbia.edu for more information.
Description
Scope and Contents
The Collection of China's spring 1989 democracy movement (六四前后中国民主运动资料汇集) documents the legacy of the democracy movement in China during 1989 as well as events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Incident and its aftermath, dating from 1988 to 1997, and with the bulk of the materials dating from 1989 to 1990. The collection holds the originals and the photocopies of over 300 ephemeral posters, leaflet/handbills, newsletters, open letters, and petitions created and distributed in 1989, including those issued by the Peking Workers Autonomous Association (北京工人自治联合会), student groups from various universities, the "Hunger Strike Newsletter" and other unofficial news bulletins, intellectuals' petitions to the government, cartoons, and poetry. The collection also comprises over 200 photographs depicting demonstration banners, big character posters, petitions and letters to the leaders. The collection also contains 15 eye-witness reports by Asians and Westerners, reports of human rights organizations, as well as books, miscellaneous news magazine articles and newspaper clippings. Related materials in the collection also include Spring 1989 issues of the banned intellectuals' journal "Eastern Record"; 147 slides of work shown at the Peking National Gallery's avant-garde exhibition; and a video tape of interviews with artists and performance art at the February 5, 1989 opening of that exhibition. Other items are several VHS, audiocassettes, floppy disks, fragments of wall posters, a T-shirt, and commemorative envelopes. A large fabric banner prepared by Chinese students at the University of Michigan which was sent to Peking where it was displayed at Tiananmen Square in May 1989 and later returned to the U.S., is also included in the collection.
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Include posters, leaflet, newsletters, open letters, and petitions, 海报，传单，宣告，通讯，公开信
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Series II: Publicity on Student Hunger Strike and Tiananmen Incident, 学生绝食抗议, 天安门事件宣传报道等, 1989
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Series III: Production and Construction Corps of Xinjiang Publications, 新疆生产建设兵团, 1989
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Series VI: China Avant-Garde Exhibition, 中国现代艺术展, 1989 February 5
Information on the artwork on the slides have been matched and titled based on the exhibition catalog and basic research.
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Series VIII: Audio Visual and Born-digital, 影音与电子文件, 1988-1990
Arrangement
Arranged by material subject and type.
- Series I: Ephemera, 印刷类, 1989
- Subseries I.1: Universities, 大学
- Subseries I.2: Chinese Organizations, Groups, and Citizens, 各界群众及联合会, 1989
- Subseries I.3: Songs, Poems, Pictorials, 诗歌画报等
- Subseries I.4: Student Fasting, Demonstration, Tiananmen Incident, 绝食, 游行, 天安门事件, 1989 May-Jun
- Subseries I.5: Government Announcements and Speeches, 政府宣告及发言
- Subseries I.6: Overseas Support
- Subseries I.7: Additional Original Ephemera, 1989
- Series II: Publicity on Student Hunger Strike and Tiananmen Incident, 学生绝食抗议, 天安门事件宣传报道等, 1989
- Subseries II.1: Published within mainland China, 大陆发行
- Subseries II.2: Published outside of mainland China, 大陆地区以外发行期刊等
- Series III: Production and Construction Corps of Xinjiang Publications, 新疆生产建设兵团, 1989
- Series IV: Articles, Clippings, Witness Reports, 剪报等
- Sub-Series IV.1: Clippings, English
- Sub-Series IV.2: Articles and Journals, Chinese
- Sub-Series IV.3: Articles and Journals, English & Japanese
- Sub-Series IV.4: Witness Reports
- Series V: Photographs, 照片, 1989 April-June
- Series VI: China Avant-Garde Exhibition, 中国现代艺术展, 1989 February 5
- Series VII: Prison letters of Wei Jingsheng, 魏京生狱中书信集
- Series VIII: Audio Visual and Born-digital, 影音与电子文件, 1988-1990
- VHS, 录像带, 1988-1990
- Cassettes, 录音帶, 1989
- Soc.Culture.China (SCC) Digital Archive/社会文化中国(简称SCC)电子档案, 1989-06-05--1989-06-13
- Series X: Index Cards, 编目卡片
Using the Collection
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is located off-site.
Some unique time-based media items have been reformatted and are (available online / available onsite) via links in the container list. Commercial materials are not routinely digitized. Email starr@library.columbia.edu for more information.
Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The C.V. Starr East Asian Library maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Collection of China's spring 1989 democracy movement; Box and Folder; C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University Library.
Related Materials
China Democracy Movement and Tiananmen Incident Archives (Collection 1821). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library.
Tiananmen Square Incident 天安门资料集, Harvard-Yenching Library.
Chinese People's Movement Collection, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact starr@library.columbia.edu for more information.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Collected by Marsha L. Wagner, between 1989 and 1990, in conjunction with University of Chicago, UCLA Berkeley, etc. Additional materials collected and contributed by Amy Vladeck Heinrich, Frank LeFleur, James Seymour, and others.
About the Finding Aid / Processing Information
Columbia University Libraries, C. V. Starr East Asian Library
Processing Information
Item level inventory list created for Series I-III by a student worker, 2013. Containers list created based on cataloging index cards and inventory list, 2020-2023.
Subject Headings
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