The Conscience of the Party - Hu Yaobang, China¿s Communist Reformer

The definitive biography of Hu Yaobang, who, as general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s, promoted popular reforms and took aim at Mao-s personality cult. When Hu-s popularity and politics grew too dangerous for the party, he was purged and suppressed in memory-but not before his death inspired the Tiananmen demonstrations.