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Prisoner of the State

The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang

Prisoner of the State( )
Author: Ziyang, Zhao
Editor: Ignatius, Adi
Edited and Translated by: Bao Pu,
Chiang, Renee
Foreword by: MacFarquhar, Roderick
ISBN:978-1-4391-4938-6
Publication Date:May 2009
Publisher:Simon & Schuster
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $26.00
Book Details
Pages:336
Detailed Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Political
Political Science / World / Asian
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.12 x 9.25 x 1.16 Inches
Book Weight:1.168 Pounds
Author Biography
Ziyang, Zhao (Author)
Roderick Lemonde MacFarquhar was born in Lahore, India on December 2, 1930. He graduated with a degree in philosophy, politics and economics from Keble College, Oxford University, in 1953. He briefly worked at The Telegraph of London before receiving a master's degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University.

In 1960, he founded The China Quarterly, an academic journal on Chinese politics and economics published by the University of Cambridge. He was elected to Parliament in Britain as a Labour candidate in 1974 and served for five years. He went on to teach history and political science at Harvard. He was the director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard from 1986 to 1992, and again from 2005 to 2006. He wrote several books including The Origins of the Cultural Revolution. He died from heart failure on February 10, 2019 at the age of 88.

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