by Liang Zhang (Editor), Andrew Nathan (Author), Liang Zhang (Editor), Andrew Nathan (Author), Liang Zhang (Editor), Perry Link (Author)
THE TIANANMEN PAPERS, which contains documents unearthed from the guarded core of the Chinese Politburo, is the most important book on China published in decades. It reveals the highest-level processes of decision-making during the tumultuous events surrounding the terrible massacre in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989.
Drawn from about 2,000 documents, THE TIANANMEN PAPERS have been compiled and edited as part of an extraordinary collaboration between America's most prominent China scholars and a handful of Chinese people who have risked their lives to obtain them.
The Chinese pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 were the longest lasting and most influential in the world. THE TIANANMEN PAPERS exposes the desperate conflict during the period among a few strong leaders, whose personalities emerge with unprecedented vividness. Its revelations of the most important event in modern Chinese history will have a profound impact not only in China, but in every country in the world that deals with China.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 736
Edition: 1st Abacus Edition
Publisher: Abacus
Published: 03 Jan 2002
ISBN 10: 0349114692
ISBN 13: 9780349114699
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