The Tiananmen Papers 
Subtitle: The Chinese Leadership's Decision to Use Force Against Their Own People - In Their Own Words
Contributors: Liang Zhang (Compiler); Andrew J. Nathan (Editor); E. Perry Link (Editor); Zhang Liang (Compiler)
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Published: January 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 513
ISBN-13: 9781586480127
Subjects: History - General History; Political Ideologies - Communism & Socialism; China; Tiananmen Square Incident, 198; Political History; History: World; History; Politics and government; Tiananmen Square Incident, 1989; Asia - China; Tiananmen Square Incident, Beijing (China), 1989; 1976-2002
First sentence: EDITORS' NOTE: The death by heart attack of the popular pro-reform leader Hu Yaobang on April 15 fell like a spark into the highly flammable atmosphere of elite division and popular disaffection.