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- Prisoner of the state : the secret journal of Zhao Ziyang / by Zhao, Ziyang.; Bao, Pu,1967?-; Chiang, Renee.; Ignatius, Adi.; MacFarquhar, Roderick.;
The Tiananmen massacre. The student protests begin ; An editorial makes things worse ; Power struggle ; The crackdown ; The accusations fly ; The campaign against Zhao ; Zhao's talk with Gorbachev -- House arrest. Zhao becomes a prisoner ; The investigative report ; Zhao's lonely struggle -- The roots of China's economic boom. Conflicting views at the top ; An early setback ; Opening painfully to the world ; Finding a new approach ; Zhao and Hu clash ; Playing a trick on a rival ; One step at a time ; The economy gets too hot ; The magic of free trade ; Freedom on the farm ; The coastal regions take off ; Coping with corruption -- War in the Politburo. Hu Yaobang "resigns" ; Zhao walks the line ; The ideologues ; Preparing for the main event -- A tumultuous year. After the Congress ; Panic buying and bank runs ; A series of missteps ; The problem with prices ; Reforms take a hit ; Zhao in retreat ; The campaign to overthrow Zhao -- How China must change. Deng's view on political reform ; Hu's view on political reform ; How Zhao's view evolved ; The old guard fights back ; The way forward -- A brief biography of Zhao Ziyang.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.- Subjects: Zhao, Ziyang.; Prime ministers; Political prisoners; Statesmen; Zhao, Ziyang.; Premiers ministres; Prisonniers politiques; Hommes d'EÌtat;
- © 2009., Simon & Schuster,
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- The People's Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / by People's Republic of China at 60: an International Assessment(2009 :Harvard University); Kirby, William C.;
Introduction: Myths and lessons of contemporary Chinese history / William C. Kirby -- Keynote address: The People's Republic of China at sixty / Roderick MacFarquhar -- The foundations of communist rule in China : the coercive dimension / David Shambaugh -- Mao Zedong and the origins of the Anti-Rightist Rectification Campaign / Shen Zhihua [in Chinese] -- Ideal, effort, and alienation of socialism in China : an exploration from a materialistic view of history / Yang Kuisong [in Chinese] -- China's three rises, regional power transitions, and East Asian security : 1949 to the twenty-first century / Robert S. Ross -- The People's Republic of China at sixty : is it rising? / Alastair Iain Johnston and Sheena Chestnut -- Why China gets a "rise" out of us : ruminations on PRC foreign relations / Alan M. Wachman -- "Sixty is the new forty" (or is it?) : reflections on the health of the Chinese body politic / Elizabeth J. Perry -- Popular protest and party rule : China's evolving polity / Andrew G. Walder -- Agriculture, imports, and diplomacy : three case studies on the interaction between Chinese party rule and popular will / Niu Dayong [in Chinese] -- Urban residential district making in China / Peter G. Rowe -- "Turning rubbish into something useful" : crime and punishment in Mao's China / Klaus Mühlhahn -- A fine balance : Chinese entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship in historical perspective / Elisabeth Köll -- Turning around state-owned enterprises under China's political business model / Jean Oi -- Health, subjectivity, and moral change in China / Arthur Kleinman -- Health care reforms in China : slogan or solution? / Barry R. Bloom and Yuanli Liu -- Rushing toward socialism : the transformation and death of private business enterprises in Shanghai, 1949-1956 / Feng Xiaocai -- Short-term stimuli and the prospects for long-term growth in China / Dwight H. Perkins -- Myth of the social volcano : popular responses to rising inequality in China / Martin King Whyte -- The making of a hero : Lei Feng and some issues of historiography / Xiaofei Tian -- Rediscovery of the frontier in recent Chinese history / Xiaoyuan Liu -- The role of China's public intellectuals in the People's Republic of China / Merle Goldman -- The end of intellectuals : sixty years of service, subversion, and selling in China / Timothy Cheek -- The politics of national celebrations in China / Chang-tai Hung -- Ming fever : the past in the present in the People's Republic of China at sixty / Michael Szonyi -- The tenacity of culture : old stories in the new China / Paul A. Cohen -- National minds and imperial frontiers : Inner Asia and China in the new century / Mark C. Elliott -- Concluding comments / Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik.Includes bibliographical references.- © c2011., Harvard University Asia Center,
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