Volume 37, Number 1 · February 1, 1990
The Empire Strikes Back
By Jonathan Mirsky
Tiananmen: The Rape of Peking
by Michael Fathers, by Andrew Higgins
The Independent/Doubleday, 148 pp., £4.99
Tiananmen Square
by Scott Simmie, by Bob Nixon
University of Washington Press, 206 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Massacre in Beijing: The Events of 3–4 June, 1989 and Their Aftermath the Ad Hoc Study Group on Human Rights in China
a report prepared by the International League for Human Rights and
79 pp., $12.00
Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June
by Harrison E. Salisbury
Little, Brown, 176 pp., $10.95 (paper)
June Four: A Chronicle of the Chinese Democratic Uprising
by the photographers and reporters of the Ming Pao News, translated by Zi Jin, by Qin Zhou
University of Arkansas Press, 171 pp., $14.95 (paper)
Beijing Spring
photographs by David Turnley, by Peter Turnley, text by Melinda Liu
Stewart, Tabori and Chang, 175 pp., $19.95 (paper)
'President Bush still regards you as his friend, a friend forever,' Brent Scowcroft told Deng Xiaoping in Beijing on December 10, six months and seven days after Deng ordered the People's Liberation Army into Tiananmen Square. In Washington, the White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater was giving a lesson in Realpolitik: 'We hope that we have reached the point where time heals all wounds, and that once the public gets used to more normalized contacts it won't be focused on the past.'
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