This book reveals the ill-fated truth of the university and its faculty members including my father, Zhao Chengxin, who was the head of the Faculty of Law at Yanjing University and the dean of the Department of Sociology.

Prisoner of the State is the story of Premier Zhao Ziyang, the man who brought liberal change to China and who was dethroned at the height of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989 for trying to stop the massacre.