reform at a time when there were few political reformers in chinese government. he tried to rehabilitate people who had been persecuted during the cultural revolution and was accommodating towards students and intellectuals demanding more freed freedoms. he was ousted in 1987 by hardliners for his laxness and liberalizati liberalization. when he died in 1989, throngs of students gathered in tiananman square to mourn his death. that crowd was the origins of the protest in tiananman square. they stayed for almost two months until the chai niels government sent in the tanks. since then, hu yaoban's name has been erased from chinese history until wen jiabao rehabilitated him. i asked him about that memoir he wrote and political reform in china. you wrote an article about your old boss, hu yaoban, which i was