When I hold this book, I feel worry free about mathematical questions because this imperial book could tell me where to find the solution or the direction to find the answer with its more than 500 problems and solutions on six aspects of graduate school mathematics: Algebra, Topology, Differential Geometry, Real Analysis, Complex Analysis and Partial Differential Equations. It covers the most aspects in one book I have seen. It gives me brief, straightforward and clear solutions which are easy to be understood.

Too many history books deal in dry facts. This book tells the story of China and what led up to the Tiananmen Square massacre from the point of view of one young student who was pulled, sometimes against his will, into the thick of the political arena. I found it fascinating!

I found this book very informative about the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square occupation by the students and workers in June of 1989. Since traveling for one month in China this past year, I have been reading alot of personal accounts on China by people who have escaped or left the country. This was a nice change; a book speaking of the efforts by the citizens to change the way things are there and by peaceful means. This book really makes one appreciate the freedoms and democracy that we take for granted in this country.

Much like Carma Hinton's documentary "The Gate of Heavenly Peace" and UNLIKE other - mostly Western - accounts, this is a complex story with breathtaking depth that portrays the events of the movement more vividly than a battle of good versus evil or democracy versus tyranny. Reading this defintely gives you a sense as to how disjointed and unorganized the student movement actually was, and yet at the same time Shen Tong provides a startlingly personal account; for me the relationship between father and son, amidst all the chaos, remains the center and focus of this amazing book. I recently re-read this and then read The Tiananmen Papers immediately afterwards. The competing perspectives offered by both books towards the same event provides an excellent base of understanding of this truly tragic and horrifying episode.

There are two wonderful things about this book: first, Shen Tong's charming account of life growing up in Beijing in an exceptional Chinese family; and then the deeply moving story of the growth of the student movement and its tragic surpression. The courage of the students, and later people from all walks of life, in their struggle for a more open society is very impressive. This book should not be out of print.

Very easy to read account of growing up in China in the late 20th Century, and the background of student revolutionaries of Tienamen Square. The author does not exhibit his part in a boastful way, but we get to experience the Student Movements from the epicenter. He makes these historic times seem everyday......but it is an interesting and insightful read.