Andrew Nathan

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.

Letter

A Question of Sources

17 November 2005

Andrew Nathan writes: Most of Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s complaints fall into two overlapping categories: I did not check enough sources; I misinterpreted what they or their sources said.Chang and Halliday’s method of citation makes it necessary for the reader to check multiple sources in order to track down the basis for any single assertion. There were many passages in their book which I had...

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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