Prisoner of the State
The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
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Narrateur(s):
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Norman Dietz
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Auteur(s):
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Bao Pu
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Adi Ignatius
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Renee Chiang
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It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and was dethroned for his efforts. When China's army moved in, killing hundreds of students and other demonstrators, Zhao was placed under house arrest at his home on a quiet alley in Beijing. China's most promising change agent had been disgraced, along with the policies he stood for. The premier spent the last sixteen years of his life, up until his death in 2005, in seclusion. An occasional detail about his life would slip out: reports of a golf excursion, a photo of his aging visage, a leaked letter to China's leaders. But China scholars often lamented that Zhao never had his final say. As it turns out, Zhao did produce a memoir in complete secrecy. He methodically recorded his thoughts and recollections on what had happened behind the scenes during many of modern China's most critical moments. The tapes he produced were smuggled out of the country and form the basis for Prisoner of the State. In this audio journal, Zhao provides intimate details about the Tiananmen crackdown, describes the ploys and double-crosses China's top leaders use to gain advantage over one another, and talks about the necessity for China to adopt democracy in order to achieve long-term stability.
The China that Zhao portrays is not some long-lost dynasty. It is today's China, where the nation's leaders accept economic freedom but continue to resist political change. If Zhao had survived---that is, if the hard-line hadn't prevailed during Tiananmen---he might have been able to steer China's political system toward more openness and tolerance.
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A singular opportunity to understand the CCP
The book was created from tapes that Zhao Ziyang had hidden in plain sight during 16 years of house arrest, as the first and only true reformer of the CCP during the early years of the 1980s. Sadly, he was undermined by hardliners such as Li Peng who then took advance of the leadership direction after pushing Deng Xiaoping to send the army in to over-react and have peaceful protesters killed and harmed starting on June 4 1989 in Tiananmen Square. China could have gone in a different direction, but the economic reform that Deng Xiaoping pushed for was not coupled with political reforms that Zhao Ziyang (then General Secretary) felt was needed (as did the Chinese people of my generation). The U-Turn in 1989 away from political reform happened when Zhao Ziyang was removed and hard liners were returned to power leading to economic stagnation in the early 1990s. Deng Xiaoping did reset economic reforms prior to his death, but maintained a strong Leninist state control over political and social aspects of China's society. Today, we have the results of this with the return of Mao-style cult worship of the CCP leader and a society shallow and deprived of any meaning other than materialism. Zhao Ziyang's thoughts (though not Shakespeare) should be read by all. China could still have a functioning society.
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