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.
- 'Thanks to these documents, we can read the words of the Party bosses, angry and baffled… Today many Chinese officials blandly deny that there was a massacre at all. These documents, however, prove it all.' John Simpson
- 'The significance and rarity of the book and its potential value to researchers can hardly be overstated.' OBSERVER
- 'To read THE TIANANMEN PAPERS is to hold history in your hands.' SUNDAY HERALD
Paperback:
£12.99
Published 03/01/2002
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