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Heir apparent to Deng Xiaoping but illegally deposed as general secretary, Zhao Ziyang was held under house arrest after the Tiananmen events of 1989 until his death at 85 in 2005. A three-year special investigation to prove that Zhao "supported turmoil and split the party" simply fizzled out. In 2000, after many failed attempts to regain his freedom and to reverse the verdicts against the students and himself, he secretly recorded his memoirs for posterity.Gaige licheng, a transcript of about 30 cassette-tapes, was smuggled out of China and, together with an English translation entitledPrisoner of the State: The Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang, published on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen crackdown in June 2009.

In Part One, Hemeyer prACOsente the key concepts and values of religious freedom and diversity in America with expanded timely discussions on sensitive issues such as religion after 9/11, sexual misconduct by the clergy, same-sex marriage and the role of gays and lesbians in communities of faith, and recent church-state concerns.

Vincent E. Bacote, assistant professor of theology at Wheaton College, is president of the Christian Theological Research Fellowship and co-editor of Evangelicals and Scripture, a collection of essays. The central aim of this book is twofold: first, to reveal the interrelated character of the strands of a thread comprised of pneumatology linked to creation and history, public theology, and the work of Abraham Kuyper; and second, to articulate a contemporary formulation of Kuyperian public theology rooted in the Holy Spirit's role in creation and history (p. 53).

Chan reviews Islam: A Mosaic, Not A Monolith by Vartan Gregorian.