About the Program
In September of 1989, former New York Times editor Harrison Salisbury was a guest on Booknotes to discuss his book, "Tiananmen Diary: Thirteen Days in June" published by Little, Brown and Company. While working on a documentary of China with a Japanese film crew, Mr. Salisbury witnessed the events leading up to and including the massacre at Tiananmen Square in Beijing. The anniversary of one of those events, occurred this weekend in 1989, when students in Beijing launched a series of pro democracy protests upon the defeat of former Communist Party leader Yaoban. The book is a polished version of the notes he recorded in his diary while in China. He also talks about Chinese personalities such as Deng Xiaoping, Li Peng and Hu Yuobang compares and contrasts the "Events of June" to the Chinese Cultural Revolution. Harrison Salsibury died at the age of 84 in 1993.
Harrison Salisbury
Harrison Salisbury was a reporter for the Minneapolis Journal, (1928-29); United Press, (1930-49); and New York Times, (1949-74) He won the Pulitzer Prize for international correspondence in 1955 and was the New York Times Op-Ed editor from 1970-73. He was also the author of 25 other books, including, "Russia on the Way," "The Shook-up Generation," "Orbit of China," "The Many Americas Shall Be One," "The Long March: The Untold Story" and "The Great Black Dragon Fire."
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