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Tell The World: What Happened in China and Why
Tell The World What Happened in China and Why Author:Xu Gang, Ruan Miing, Liu Binyan, Henry L. Epstein (Translator) Tell The World: What Happened in China and Why by Liu Binyan with Ruan Ming and Xu Gang Translated by Henry L. Epstein This book was written by three people whose ages and backgrounds differ, but whose fates have been similar in the past ten years or so. We all joined the Communist Party of China [in the 1940's]. We were all dismissed from the P... more »arty at different times and in different fashions. Only one of us, Xu Gang, participated directly in the 1989 Democracy movement in Beijing. He did not leave Tiananmen Square until the massacre on June 4, 1989. But we have all been deeply involved in various ways in analyzing the enormous changes that have swept China in the last decade; and this book draws deeply on our observations of China, from different, angles, over the past few decades. Our analysis of China was, and remains, interwoven with our efforts to change our country. In the future, we hope to continue to do our part in ending this current chapter of China's history as soon as possible.... I have said that the nature of what has happened in China is disintegration--disintegration of the old social structure, the old political system, the old social relations, and the old ideology. This process in not yet complete, but the events of June 1989 greatly accelerated the process. Liu Binyan August 25, 1989 About the authors: Liu Binyan was a reporter for China's leading paper, The People's Daily, in the 1970's and 1980's, and became famous for his searing accounts of corruption in the Communist Party. Ruan Ming was vice-director of the theoretical research office of the Party School of the Central Committee from 1977 to 1982. Xu Gang is a poet and editor of the Chinese journal of Chinese Writers.« less