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At the turn of the spring and summer of 1989, democratic protests broke out in Beijing and other cities in China. In the early hours of June 4, the Chinese government dispatched troops to suppress the movement. In 2009, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the June 4th Incident in 2009, some participants in the movement jointly released the "Unofficial White Paper on the June 4th Incident". The book has 48 pages and a large number of illustrations.  This white paper attempts to provide a complete political background and legal analysis of the events based on reports from Chinese newspapers, radio and television stations at the time, as well as memoirs and interviews that have been published over the past 20 years. Participants in this book believe that the Chinese government has not conducted a comprehensive investigation and objective evaluation of the June 4th Incident, and has long blocked relevant information and prohibited private investigation and discussion of the matter. The report is called a "white paper" to emphasize its rigor and normative nature. Participants in this book include Hu Ping, Yan Jiaqi, Wang Juntao, Wang Dan, Yang Jianli and others. The book was written by Li Jinjin, a doctor of law.

Zhang Zuhua is an independent scholar in China. In his early years, he served as a member of the Standing Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, Secretary of the Youth League Committee of the Central State Organs. Later, he worked at a private research institute, mainly engaged in political modernization, the theory and practice of constitutional democracy, and China's political reform. He was a key participant in China's Charter 08 in 2008. This book is a collection of his political essays.

This book is Gao Hua's next masterpiece after *How the Red Sun Rose*. It entails a selection of papers published by the author between 1988 and 2004, covering the fields of Republican history, Communist Party history, and contemporary Chinese history. It captures the historical interaction between the present and the past. Gao reflects deeply on the far-reaching Chinese Communist Revolution. With a rigorous and empirical research methodology, he sketches a complex and colorful picture of history, presenting the multiple facets of twentieth-century China's history.

This book is the brainchild of Prof. Lian Xi of Duke University, U.S.A. In March 2018, it was published in English by Basic Books in the U.S.A. In 2021, it was published in Chinese by Taiwan Business Press. Based on a large amount of historical materials as well as first-hand interviews, this book reconstructs Lin Zhao's life. It depicts the political development before and after the birth of New China, and presents the resilient will and beliefs of intellectuals in this era. To purchase this book, please visit [the publisher](https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/lian-xi/blood-letters/9781541644229/?lens=basic-books), or a bookseller.

During the pro-democracy movement in 1989, Hong Kong journalists gathered in Beijing, including Wen Wei Bao"" reporters. This book is a special issue of *Wen Wei Bao* for 1989. It contains a large number of photographs, all taken by its reporters. "After the June 4 massacre, the Communist Party of China (CCP) settled scores with the editorial team of Hong Kong's "Wen Wei Bao," replacing the president, editor-in-chief, and deputy editors-in-chief. The editor-in-chief at the time, Jin Yaoru, later moved to the United States and publicly announced his resignation from the party.

Bo Gu (博古), real name Qin Bangxian (秦邦憲), was the top leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1931-1935, leaving his post as General Secretary of the CCP after the Zunyi Conference. The author of this book, who is Bo Gu's nephew, describes some important historical points in the early days of the Communist Party, the various activities among the top leaders of the CCP, such as Mao Zedong, and their relationships through the narratives and circumstantial testimonies of a number of knowledgeable people.

The author of this book, Lu Jianhua (pen name Wen Lu), was a former member of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences who published this book in 1993. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 2005 for "allegedly leaking state secrets" in connection with the "espionage case" involving journalist Cheng Xiang.

Jiabiangou was a labor reform farm in Jiuquan County, Gansu Province, where "rightist" prisoners were held. October 1957, nearly 3,000 educated people were detained there. In October 1961, when the higher-ups corrected the "left-leaning" mistakes of the Gansu Provincial Party Committee and began repatriating the rightist prisoners, less than half had survived. Writer Yang Xianhui spent five years interviewing more than a hundred people and brought to light the truth that had been sealed for more than forty years. Originally published by Tianjin Ancient Books Publishing House in 2002, this book also includes other short and medium-sized stories by Yang Xianhui.

Published in 1989 by the Beijing Daily News, this book is the Chinese government's official account and presentation of the June Fourth Incident. Officially, it describes the June 4 Incident as an upheaval and even stigmatizes it as a counter-revolutionary riot. Some of the accounts presented here need to be judged against other sources.

This book covers the history of the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan and related analysis. Wang Shaoguang completed his doctoral dissertation of the same name (in English) in 1989, and the Chinese version of his abridged dissertation, *Rationality and Madness: The Masses in the Cultural Revolution,* was published by Oxford University Press in 1993. a Chinese version was published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press in 2009. Taking the Cultural Revolution in Wuhan as the main axis, the author interviewed dozens of participants in the Cultural Revolution, utilizing a large amount of original materials published during the Cultural Revolution. Combining all of this with his own personal experience, he profoundly reveals the masses' participation in the Cultural Revolution during winters, forms and laws, the mechanism of advancement and retreat, and its relationship to the general situation of the whole country.

Written by Chinese liberal intellectual Liu Junning, this book circulated underground in 2006. The book parses the fundamentals of democracy as well as historical experience. It was quickly banned in China.

Author Zhang Boli, a former student leader of the June 4 Democracy Movement, was ranked 17th on the "21 Most Wanted List." After June 4, Zhang Boli went into hiding in his hometown in Northeast China and crossed the border into the Soviet Union, where he was detained and repatriated by the Soviets. The Soviets did not hand him over to the Chinese border guards, but let him leave on his own. In the two years following June 4, Zhang Boli was the only June 4 pro-democracy leader who was neither captured by the Chinese Communist Party nor able to flee China. It was not until 1991 that Zhang Boli arrived in Hong Kong through secret channels and applied for political asylum at the U.S. Consulate. *Escape From China：The Long Journey from Tiananmen to Freedom* was published and translated into many languages. The English version won the Washington Post's "Best Book Award".

The author Wang Ming was an early member of the Communist Party of China (CCP) and the first of the "28 and a half Bolsheviks," who lost power after the Yan'an Rectification and were gradually marginalized by Mao. After the Yan'an Rectification, the Internationalists, led by him, lost power in the party. He was gradually ostracized by Mao Zedong, who expatriated him to the Soviet Union in 1956. In his book, Wang Ming recounts his decades-long feud with Mao. It provides a fascinating insight into the early history of the CCP.

This monograph by Sun Liping, a professor at Tsinghua University, was published by China Literature Publishing House in 2003. The author systematically analyzes a series of changes in Chinese social life since the 1990s. The book discusses the meaning and characteristics of fractured society; the formation and background of fractured society; widening income gaps and the formation of vulnerable groups; the new urban-rural dual structure; trust crisis and social order; social conflicts and institutional innovation, etc.