# The Tiananmen Papers

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- Book: [The Tiananmen Papers](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-nathan/the-tiananmen-papers) ([The Tiananmen Papers.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-nathan/the-tiananmen-papers.md))
- Authors: [Andrew Nathan](https://www.bookquiver.com/andrew-nathan), [Perry Link](https://www.bookquiver.com/perry-link), [Liang Zhang](https://www.bookquiver.com/liang-zhang)
- Publisher: abacus
- ISBN: 978-03-4911-469-9
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2002-01-03
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

THE TIANANMEN PAPERS, which contains documents unearthed from the guarded core of the Chinese Politburo, is the most important book on China published in decades. It reveals the highest-level processes of decision-making during the tumultuous events surrounding the terrible massacre in Tiananmen Square on 4 June 1989. Drawn from about 2,000 documents, THE TIANANMEN PAPERS have been compiled and edited as part of an extraordinary collaboration between America's most prominent China scholars and a handful of Chinese people who have risked their lives to obtain them. The Chinese pro-democracy demonstrations in 1989 were the longest lasting and most influential in the world. THE TIANANMEN PAPERS exposes the desperate conflict during the period among a few strong leaders, whose personalities emerge with unprecedented vividness. Its revelations of the most important event in modern Chinese history will have a profound impact not only in China, but in every country in the world that deals with China.