Zhao Ziyang

About The Author

ZHAO ZIYANG was the Premier of China from 1983 until 1987 when he became the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, a position he held until 1989 when he was deposed and put under house arrest until his death in 2005.

Books by Zhao Ziyang

Prisoner of the State

The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

Edited by Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu and Renee Chiang / Foreword by Roderick MacFarquhar / Translated by Adi Ignatius, Bao Pu and Renee Chiang
Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre—and why he was deposed for trying to stop it.
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