---------------------------------------------------- ChinaResourceNews No.28 (March 21, 2005) http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/chinaresource-l.html ---------------------------------------------------- +++ DACHS NEWS +++ DACHS NEWS +++ DACHS NEWS New in the Digital Archive of Chinese Studies: Zhao Ziyang’s Virtual Book Shelf http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/volland050314.htm What do Chinese leaders read? From which sources did Zhao Ziyang receive information on developments in the outside world while under house arrest between 1989 and 2005? In January 2005, an article signed "Mo Zhixu" 莫之許 appeared on the homepage of Chinese Blogger An Ti 安替 with the title "Ziyang's book shelf" 紫陽的書櫃. The author had been among the guests paying their tributes to Zhao Ziyang's family, and had used a few minutes while waiting in the Zhao mansion to look at the deceased leader's book shelves. In the article he reports those titles he could still recall after the ceremony. They provide a rare and valuable insight into the sources of information used by Zhao during his house arrest, and by PRC politicians in general. The Digital Archive of Chinese Studies has tracked down the texts mentioned by "Mo Zhixu," downloaded them wherever possible, and has tried to find information on the titles and their authors, many of whom are virtually unknown in the West. http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/volland050314.htm Nicolai Volland DACHS content manager ____________________ With kind regards, Matthias Arnold ([log in to unmask]) ChinaResource.org http://chinaresource.org/ _______________________________________________________ An archive of this list as well as an subscribe/unsubscribe facility is available at: http://listserv.uni-heidelberg.de/archives/chinaresource-l.html