The Foreign Service Journal, May 2005

M A Y 2 0 0 5 / F O R E I G N S E R V I C E J O U R N A L 47 F O C U S O N C H I N A Z HAO Z IYANG : B URIED BUT N OT D EAD n Jan. 29, 2005, the ashes of Zhao Ziyang, the former general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, were finally laid to rest in the Babaoshan cemetery, west of Beijing. The funeral came nearly two weeks after the late leader’s death on Jan. 17, delayed repeatedly as the central party authorities and the family argued over final arrangements, including the evaluation that would be included in the official biography released with his funeral. In the end, the family was accorded higher respect than the officials originally wanted to grant it — Jia Qinglin, the fourth-ranked member of the Politburo Standing Committee and head of the Chinese People’s Consultative O T HE C HINESE LEADER ’ S REMAINS WERE INTERRED ON J AN . 29, BUT A RECENT BOOK POINTS TO THE UNFINISHED HISTORICAL RECKONING OF T IANANMEN S QUARE . B Y J OSEPH F EWSMITH Jeff Moores