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Tell The World: What Happened In China And Why

Liu Binyan with Ruan Ming and Xu Gang
Reviewed by By Donald S. Zagoria
Spring 1990
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Liu Binyan with Ruan Ming and Xu Gang
Pantheon
1990
195 pp.
$18.95

China's best-known journalist, Liu Binyan, in collaboration with two other former members of the Chinese Communist Party, provide a graphic account of the Old Guard running the party since the massacres in Tienanmen Square. The authors predict that increasing social crises and popular opposition will enable the more moderate forces within the party to replace the hardliners in the government.

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