Andrew Nathan is the Class of 1919 Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. He co-edited The Tiananmen Papers and is the author, with Bruce Gilley, of China’s New Rulers.
I could hardly bring myself to read this book. When I finished it, I was more puzzled than ever about what I had witnessed before and at the time of the Tiananmen Square massacre in 1989. I was...
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