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Prisoner of the state : the secret journal of Zhao Ziyang / translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang and Adi Ignatius ; foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar.
Van Pelt Library DS779.29.C47 A313 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zhao, Ziyang.
- Language:
- Chinese
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Zhao, Ziyang.
- Prime ministers--China--Biography.
- Prime ministers.
- China.
- Political prisoners--China--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Statesmen--China--Biography.
- Statesmen.
- China--History--Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989.
- History.
- China--Politics and government--1976-2002.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 306 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First Simon and Schuster hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Simon & Schuster, [2009]
- Summary:
- Gives readers a front row seat to the secret inner workings of China's government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, who tried to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989, and was dethroned for his efforts.
- Contents:
- The Tiananmen massacre
- House arrest
- The roots of China's economic boom
- War in the Politburo
- A tumultuous year
- How China must change.
- ISBN:
- 9781439149386
- 1439149380
- OCLC:
- 301887109
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