Twenty-nine years ago, the Pentagon Papers provided a vivid, revelatory, sometimes damning look at the operations of the American government during the Vietnam War. Now "The Tiananmen papers" provides a similarly detailed, first-hand look inside China. Maps.
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Twenty-nine years ago, the Pentagon Papers provided a vivid, revelatory, sometimes damning look at the operations of the American government during the Vietnam War. Now "The Tiananmen papers" provides a similarly detailed, first-hand look inside China. Maps.
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Excellent condition for ex-library edition. Inside very clean, bright. but with usual stamps/stickers. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 513 p. Audience: General/trade. Described on jacket as "The Chinese leadership's decision to use force against their own people--in their own words. " Based on transcripts of actual meetings and documents, this book is the first account of any top level political decisionmaking in the history of China. It outlines the reasoning behind the leaders' vote to end talks with the students and to turn guns on them instead.
