THE TIANANMEN PAPERS

Liang, Zhang; Andrew J. Nathan and Perry Link (editors)

ISBN 10: 158648012X / ISBN 13: 9781586480127

Published by Public Affairs, New York, N. Y., U.S.A., 2001

About this Item

Fine, in fine, mylar-protected dust jacket. 833 pp. A34.

Seller Inventory # 8985

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE TIANANMEN PAPERS
• Publisher: Public Affairs, New York, N. Y., U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 158648012X
• ISBN 13: 9781586480127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nonfiction

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Synopsis

Compiles internal government and Communist Party documents to chronicle the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in China, revealing the decisions that led to the use of military force against the student demonstrators in Tiananmen Square.

About the Author

Andrew J. Nathan is professor of politics at Columbia University and the author of numerous books, including China's Transition (Columbia). He is a frequent contributor to The New Republic. Perry Link is professor of Chinese language and literature at Princeton University. In 1988-89 he served as Beijing director of a subcommittee of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the author of many books, including Evening Chats in Beijing: Probing China's Predicament(Norton). Orville Schell, dean of graduate studies in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, is considered one of America's foremost experts on China. His most recent book on contemporary China is The China Reader: the Reform Era (Vintage).