Fine unread condition ruby red boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Preface: Adi Ignatius; Foreword: Roderick MacFarquhar; Epilogue: Bao Pu; A Brief Biography of Zhao Ziyang; Who Was Who; and Acknowledgments. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates. Translated and edited by Rao Pu, Renee Chiang, and Adi Ignatius. The upper spine edge has a repaired 1/16th inch closed tear. All pages are in fine unread condition and the spine is exceedingly tight and square (see photographs). "How often can you peek behind the curtains of one of the most secretive governments in the world? Prisoner of the State is the first book to give readers a front row seat to the inner workings of China. It is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to that nation and who, at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, tried to stop the massacre and was dethroned for h