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Graduate students have traditionally learned a good part of what
they know about sources and research aids on modern China through
hearsay and serendipity, in unsystematic and unreliable bits and
pieces. The field has now developed to the point where this need
not and ought not to be so. It is now possible for beginning
researchers to start with some shared basic knowledge of research
aids and documentary resources. This research guide is meant to
provide that knowledge. The user of this guide is envisaged as an
American graduate student in history or the social sciences who is
already familiar with the major English-language secondary
literature on modern China and is about to begin original research,
either for a seminar paper or for a dissertation.
Bullets and Brains is a collection of over 100 essays about people
and their brains written by a neurologist and epilepsy specialist.
These articles appeared over the last four years in two
Medscape.com columns, "Wilner on Neurology" and "Epilepsy Notes,"
as well as other special articles. Medscape.com is a division of
WebMD, a leading provider of health information. Although written
for a medical audience, most of these essays focus on the
intersection of neurology and society and are easily accessible to
the inquisitive reader. As one reader wrote, "I felt as if I was in
a comfortable conversation over a good coffee with the author."
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.
An expose of the inner workings of the Chinese government and the
crackdown on the Tiananmen Square riots. On the night of June 3-4,
1989, Chinese troops violently crushed the largest pro-democracy
demonstrations in the history of the communist regime. In this
collection of hundreds of internal government and Communist Party
documents, secretly smuggled out of China, we learn how these
events came to pass from behind the scenes. The material reveals
how the most important decisions were made; and how the turmoil
split the ruling elite into radically opposed factions. The book
includes the minutes of the crucial meetings at which the Elders
decided to cashier the pro-reform Party secretary Zhao Ziyang and
to replace him with Jiang Zemin, to declare martial law, and
finally to send the troops to drive the students from the Square.
Just as the Pentagon Papers laid bare the secret American decision
making behind the Vietnam War and changed forever our view of the
nation's political leaders, so too has The Tiananmen Papers altered
our perception of how and why the events of June 4 took the shape
they did.
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