Tiananmen Papers

Thrilling like a novel - the story of how the chinese student uprising in Spring 1989 sparked off and then evolved into nationwide protest and was ultimately crushed, told by scores of reports and other intelligence provided for party central in Beijing, and what is more, by minutes of the meetings of party central and private meetings of party leaders. The documents where brought out of the...more

Thrilling like a novel - the story of how the chinese student uprising in Spring 1989 sparked off and then evolved into nationwide protest and was ultimately crushed, told by scores of reports and other intelligence provided for party central in Beijing, and what is more, by minutes of the meetings of party central and private meetings of party leaders. The documents where brought out of the country by an anonymous Chinese and where considered authentic by the two American authors, both scholars at Columbia and Princeton university, respectively. Exposes the Psychology of the then chinese leadership.   hide