Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
Author
Zhao Ziyang
Original title
改革歷程
Translator
Bao Pu
Country
United States and United Kingdom
Language
Chinese, English
Genre
Non-fiction
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Publication date
May 19, 2009
Media type
Print (Paperback)
Pages
336 pp. (first edition, paperback)
ISBN
978-1-4391-4938-6 (first edition for US, hardback); ISBN 978-1-84737-697-8 (first edition for UK, hardback)
OCLC
301887109
Dewey Decimal
951.058092 22
LC Class
DS779.29.Z467 A313 2009
Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang are the memoirs of the former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, Zhao Ziyang, who was sacked after the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre. The book was published in English in May 2009,[1] to coincide with the twentieth anniversary of the clearing of the square by tanks on June 4, 1989. It is based on a series of about thirty audio tapes recorded secretly by Zhao while he was under house arrest in 1999 and 2000.[2]
Co-editor Adi Ignatius pinpoints a meeting held at Deng Xiaoping's home on May 17, 1989, less than three weeks before the suppression of the Tiananmen protests, as the key moment in the book. When Zhao argued that the government should look for ways to ease tensions with the protesters, two conservative officials immediately criticized him. Deng then announced he would impose martial law. Zhao commented: "I refused to become the General Secretary who mobilized the military to crack down on students."[3] In the last chapter, Zhao praises the Western system of parliamentary democracy and says that it is the only way China can solve its problems of corruption and a growing gap between the rich and poor.[4]
^Bristow, Michael (May 14, 2009), "Secret Tiananmen memoirs revealed", BBC News, Beijing, retrieved July 6, 2009
^Link, Perry (May 17, 2009), "From the Inside, Out: Zhao Ziyang Continues His Fight Postmortem", Washington Post, retrieved July 6, 2009
^Ignatius, Adi (May 14, 2009), "The Secret Memoir of a Fallen Chinese Leader", Time Magazine, archived from the original on May 15, 2009, retrieved May 15, 2009
^Deposed Chinese leader's memoir out before June 4, May 14, 2009, retrieved July 6, 2009{{citation}}: Unknown parameter |agency= ignored (help)
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