Abstract—Drawing on theories in social movement, this
paper provides a profile of the 1989 Beijing Student Movement
(BSW): its recruitment, participation, leadership structures,
and its basic cultural, symbolic, material resources as well as
core repertoires. It is hoped to shed light on relevant studies of
social movement learning in Chinese political environment.
Index Terms—Adult learning, social movement, tilly
approach, knowledge production.
Yong Fang Jia is with the OISE Student Success Center, University of
Toronto, Canada (e-mail: jiayf98@gmail.com)
[PDF]
Cite:Yong Fang Jia, "Looking Back and Looking Forward: Adult Learnings
from the Chinese Social Movement," International Journal of Social Science and Humanity vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 559-564, 2013.