Zhao Ziyang's Books
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Prisoner of the StatePremier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre--and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.Read More
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Foreign Affairs, November 5, 2009
...Chang and Jon Halliday. Alfred A. Knopf, 2005. | Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. By Zhao Ziyang. Simon & Schuster, 2009. | For decades, communist studies were dominated by biographies -- which is either ironic or...
TheStar.com.my, October 2, 2009
...years of work by the Carter Center on bottom-up elections, Prime Minister Wen Jiabao?s reputation as a Zhao Ziyang closet liberal, and President Hu Jintao?s adviser Prof. Yu Keping as a democracy advocate commissioned by Hu to conduct a study on a...
AsiaNews.IT, October 2, 2009
...arrest of the reform-minded young Emperor Guanxu read too much like Deng Xiaoping's treatment of General Secretary Zhao Ziyang who had opposed his violent Tiananmen solution. While all of these are possible sources of their irritation, the most dangerous...
Malaysian Insider, September 30, 2009
...business is better.? Next to a promotional poster of ?Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang? ? detailing the political struggles leading up to the Tiananmen Square crackdown ? were tubs of imported Japanese baby...
Asiaone, September 29, 2009
...media this year after his Hong Kong-based company, New Century Press, published a memoir by deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang. Bao is the son of a former top aide of Zhao, who was ousted over his sympathy with Beijing's Tiananmen Square protests, which...
Yahoo! India, August 5, 2009
...Publisher: Penguin Books Price: Rs.499 2. 'Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Chinese Premier' Author: Zhao Ziyang Publisher: Simon & Schuster Price: Rs. 1,022 3. 'Stranger to History' Author: Aatish Taseer Publisher: Picador India Price:...
MSNBC Newsweek, June 27, 2009
...in Victorian England even has a Madoff-before-Madoff, a tragic windler named Augustus Melmotte. PRISONER OF THE STATE by Zhao Ziyang The title says it all. Trollope?s satire of financial (and moral) crisis in Victorian England even has a...
MSNBC Newsweek, June 27, 2009
...in Victorian England even has a Madoff-before-Madoff, a tragic windler named Augustus Melmotte. PRISONER OF THE STATE by Zhao Ziyang The title says it all. Trollope?s satire of financial (and moral) crisis in Victorian England even has a...
Radio Television Hong Kong, May 29, 2009
...Book shops in Hong Kong are reporting brisk sales of the posthumous memoirs of late Communist party leader Zhao Ziyang. Mr Zhao was purged and confined to his house for sympathising with the student protests of 1989. His memoirs - based on tapes he...
Reuters India, May 28, 2009
...HONG KONG (Reuters) - The Chinese version of former Chinese Communist Party chief Zhao Ziyang's explosive memoirs go on sale in Hong Kong bookstores to great demand on Friday, ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square crackdown. The memoirs,...
South China Morning Post, May 28, 2009
...The publisher of a memoir by deposed Chinese leader Zhao Ziyang on Thursday defended the book following an attack by Beijing-backed media that made a rare mention of the 1989 democracy protests. Zhao was ousted over his sympathy with the...
Asiaone, May 22, 2009
...- - A former top official in China has said he and three others secretly helped deposed leader Zhao Ziyang pen a memoir in which he sharply criticises the violent crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen protests. Du Daozheng, once the head of China's state...
Individual.com, May 16, 2009
...['Zhao Ziyang's Former Political Assistant Is Ready To Publish a Book Compiled From Zhao Ziyang's Recordings'] A new book 'Prisoner of the State' compiled from Zhao Ziyang's...
Forbes.com, May 15, 2009
...While the revelation of former Communist leader Zhao Ziyang's secret memoir has caused a media storm in the West, it could be less of a public relations disaster for the Chinese government than many expect. Zhao, former...
Guardian Unlimited, May 14, 2009
...Zhao Ziyang reads a newspaper in the garden of his home in central Beijing, in 1994. Photograph: Reuters The secretly recorded memoirs of the Chinese Communist party leader who was ousted...
Guardian Unlimited, May 14, 2009
...Zhao Ziyang reads a newspaper in the garden of his home in central Beijing, in 1994. Photograph: Reuters The secretly recorded memoirs of the Chinese Communist party leader who was ousted...
Washington Post, May 14, 2009
...PRISONER OF THE STATE The Secret Journal of Zhao Ziyang Translated from the Chinese and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius Simon & Schuster. 306 pp. $26 [Eds. note: This story has been translated into Chinese...
Shanghaiist, October 19, 2009
...s Censors [NYTimes] "For nearly two decades, the Communist Party strove to wipe out the national memory of Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded party secretary who opposed the use of force against pro-democracy protesters in 1989. So when a former aide of Mr....
Chinalyst - China blogs in English, October 19, 2009
...s Censors [NYTimes] "For nearly two decades, the Communist Party strove to wipe out the national memory of Zhao Ziyang, the reform-minded party secretary who opposed the use of force against pro-democracy protesters in 1989. So when a former aide of Mr....
Biblio File, September 25, 2009
...s fascinating to read against the Tiananmen chapters of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang ). You can read several excerpts at China Beat...
Biblio File, August 17, 2009
...weekend and its success will depend on your help. Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang Zhao Ziyang, translated and edited by Bao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius with a foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar Zhao Ziyang joined the...
Planet Malaysia, June 4, 2009
...fast-forward... I am currently reading this book about a Prisoner of the State . Image source: Telegraph UK Will Zhao Ziyang's book shake China? Don't bet on it, says Newsweek . Also read Bao Bu , one of the translators and editors of " Prisoner of the...
Kaizenlog, May 24, 2009
...front row seat to the secret inner workings of China’s government. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and...
The China Blog - TIME.com, May 21, 2009
...more than fighting for the magazine. Reuters reports that he had a key role in convincing deposed leader Zhao Ziyang to compile his memoirs: In a statement explaining his role in making the memoirs, Du said it was time to rehabilitate Zhao, ousted in...
Pomfret's China, May 15, 2009
...Someone asked me whether I thought Zhao Ziyang's posthumous memoirs -- "Prisoner of the State" -- was going to cause some type of controversy on the mainland or add to the worries of the Chinese Communist...
