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Title: Tiananmen 20 Years Later: Bao Pu and the Memoirs of Zhao Ziyang Focus: Human rights, China |
Type: Lecture/talk Country: AAWW |
Published Date: June 21, 2009 |
On Sunday, June 21st, from 2-3:30pm, the Workshop welcomes Bao Pu, an editor and translator of Prisoner of the State: The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang. The bestselling volume, published in Chinese and English on the recent 20th anniversary of the protests, compiles hours of secretly recorded interviews and unprecedented insight into the schisms within the Chinese Communist Party’s elite. Though nominally the highest-ranking member of the Party in June of 1989, Zhao reveals here that “no matter what,” he would not be “the General Secretary who mobilized the military to crack down on students.” Zhao was subsequently purged from the party after Tiananmen, and held under house arrest until his death. This remarkable break of silence “marks the first time since the establishment of the People's Republic of China 60 years ago that a senior Chinese leader has spoken out so directly against the party and its system.” (Washington Post)
Bao Pu, a political commentator and veteran human rights activist, is a publisher and editor of New Century Press in Hong Kong.
Where:
The Asian American Writers’ Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
(btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
New York, New York
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