Academic David Cowhig writes,
I just got another book about the many people who resisted the martial law troops charging into Beijing around June 4, 1989. This Chinese-language book, with an introduction by Yongyi SONG has the English language title “Court Files of Civil Disobedience Against Government Violence on June 4th, 1989” Chinese “?????????“ and like Liao Yiwu’s book of interview “Bullet Opium” highlights the role of the majority of the June 4th arrested. Mostly not university students in the Square but Beijing people of all ages and occupations who rushed to the streets to prevent what they saw was the coming massacre of the students in Tiananmen Square. This book tells the other story of Tiananmen through contemporary court documents.
“Court Files” was edited by the Support Network for the Persecuted in China (Australia) Published 2019 by Mirror Books HK website
https://w1.mingjingnews.com/index.php/shop/manufacturer/p007 (the website has other intriguing offerings including a book of oral histories done with Shanxi Province peasants) ISBN 978-1-63032-799-6 contact address for the publisher in the USA is P.O. Box 815, Deer Park, NY 11729.
The book begins with an introduction by Song Yongyi, a democracy activist and scholar of the Cultural Revolution.
My translation of the introduction “Song Yongyi: A Guide to the “Court Cases of the “June 4th Protesters Against Government Violence“: ThisImportant Group in the June 4th Democratic Movement Must Not be Forgotten or Ignored” I copied the translation below and also attached it as a PDF file. I have also attached the table of contents.
