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๐Ÿ“˜ ใ€ŽPrisoner of the State โ€“ ์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ฃ„์ˆ˜ใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

๐Ÿ“˜ ใ€ŽPrisoner of the State โ€“ ์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ฃ„์ˆ˜ใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

๐Ÿ’ก (ํ•œ๊ตญ์–ด) ์ค‘๊ตญ ํ˜„๋Œ€์‚ฌ์˜ ์•„์ด๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ, ์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘์˜ ํšŒ๊ณ 

ใ€ŽPrisoner of the State โ€“ ์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ฃ„์ˆ˜ใ€๋ฅผ ์ฝ๊ณ 

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  • ์ฑ… ์ œ๋ชฉ: ใ€ŽPrisoner of the State โ€“ ์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘ ๊ตญ๊ฐ€์˜ ์ฃ„์ˆ˜ใ€
  • ์ €์ž: ์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘(Zhao Ziyang)
  • ์ถ”์ฒœ ๋Œ€์ƒ: ํ†ˆ์•ˆ๋จผ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด, ๋ฉ์ƒค์˜คํ•‘ ์‹œ๊ธฐ ์ค‘๊ตญ ์ •์น˜์— ๊ด€์‹ฌ ์žˆ๋Š” ๋…์ž
  • ํ•œ์ค„ ๊ฐ์ƒ: ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ๊ทผํ˜„๋Œ€ ์ •์น˜์ œ๋„๋ฅผ 1์ธ์นญ ์‹œ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ•œ๋‹ค!!

๐Ÿง 1. ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์šด ๊ทผํ˜„๋Œ€์‚ฌ

์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ๊ทผํ˜„๋Œ€์‚ฌ๋Š” ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ๋งค๋ ฅ์ ์ด๋‹ค.
๋งˆ์˜ค์ฉŒ๋‘ฅ์—์„œ ๋ฉ์ƒค์˜คํ•‘, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žฅ์ฉŒ๋ฏผ์œผ๋กœ ์ด์–ด์ง€๋Š” ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๊ณ„์Šน์˜ ํ๋ฆ„ ์†์—์„œ
๋ฉ๊ณผ ์žฅ ์‚ฌ์ด์˜ ๊ณผ๋„๊ธฐ์  ์‹œ๊ธฐ๋ฅผ ์ œ๋Œ€๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜์ง€ ๋ชปํ–ˆ์—ˆ๋Š”๋ฐ,
์ด ์ฑ…์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๊ทธ ๊ณต๋ฐฑ์„ ๋ฉ”์šธ ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

ํŠนํžˆ 1989๋…„ ํ†ˆ์•ˆ๋จผ ์‚ฌ๊ฑด(6ยท4 ์‚ฌ๊ฑด)์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์ž์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ์„ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค๋Š” ์ ์ด ์ธ์ƒ ๊นŠ์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๊ทธ ๋‹น์‹œ ์‹œ์œ„ํ•˜๋˜ ํ•™์ƒ๋“ค์€ ์ง€๊ธˆ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ ์–ด๋–ค ์œ„์น˜์—์„œ ์—ญํ• ์„ ๋‹คํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์„๊นŒ?


๐Ÿ˜… 2. ๋ณด์ˆ˜์™€ ์ง„๋ณด์˜ ์—ญ์„ค

ํฅ๋ฏธ๋กœ์› ๋˜ ์ง€์ ์€ ์ค‘๊ตญ์˜ โ€˜๋ณด์ˆ˜โ€™๋Š” ์‚ฌํšŒ์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์ง€์ง€ํ•˜๋Š” ์ขŒ์ต ์„ธ๋ ฅ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์‚ฌ์‹ค์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
ํ•œ๊ตญ ์‚ฌํšŒ์—์„œ ํ†ต์ƒ์ ์œผ๋กœ ์ดํ•ดํ•˜๋Š” ์ขŒ์šฐ ๊ฐœ๋…๊ณผ๋Š” ์ •๋ฐ˜๋Œ€์—ฌ์„œ,
์ž๋ณธ์ฃผ์˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ์™€ ์‚ฌํšŒ์ฃผ์˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ์˜ ๊ด€์ ์˜ ์ฐจ๋ฅผ ์ดํ•ดํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์–ด๋‹ค.


๐Ÿš€ 3. ์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘์˜ ๊ฒฝ์ œ ๊ฐœํ˜๊ณผ ๋ฉ์ƒค์˜คํ•‘์˜ ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ

์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘์€ ๊ฐœํ˜ยท๊ฐœ๋ฐฉ์˜ ํ•„์š”์„ฑ์„ ์ผ์ฐ์ด ๊ฐ„ํŒŒํ•œ ์ธ๋ฌผ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.
๊ฒฝ์ œ์  ์„ ๊ฒฌ์ง€๋ช…์€ ๋†€๋ผ์šธ ์ •๋„์˜€์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ˆ˜๋งŽ์€ ์›๋กœ์˜ ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ ์†์—์„œ๋„
๊ทธ์˜ ์ •์ฑ…์„ ์ง€์ง€ํ•ด์ค€ ๋ฉ์ƒค์˜คํ•‘์˜ ๊ฒฐ๋‹จ ๋˜ํ•œ ๋Œ€๋‹จํ•ด ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์ •์น˜ ์ œ๋„์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ด๊ฒฌ์ด ๋ฐœ์ƒํ•˜๋ฉด์„œ, ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ž์˜ค๊ฐ€ ๊ฐ€ํƒ์—ฐ๊ธˆ ์ƒํƒœ์— ์ฒ˜ํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋œ ์ ์€
์•„์‰ฌ์šด์ ์ด์—ˆ๋‹ค.

๋งˆ์˜ค์— ์˜ํ•œ, 1์ธ ๋…์žฌ์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ์ ์„ ์•Œ๋ฉด์„œ๋„ ๋ฏผ์ฃผ์—๋Š” ๋ฐ˜๋Œ€ํ•œ ๋ฉ์˜ ๊นŠ์€ ์ƒ๊ฐ์ด ๊ถ๊ธˆํ–ˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿพ 4. ์žฅ์ฉŒ๋ฏผ์˜ ๋“ฑ์žฅ๊ณผ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ์˜ ์•„์ด๋Ÿฌ๋‹ˆ

๋‹น์‹œ ์ƒํ•˜์ด์— ๋จธ๋ฌผ๋Ÿฌ ์ค‘์•™ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ๊ณผ ๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๊ฐ€ ์žˆ๋˜ ์žฅ์ฉŒ๋ฏผ์ด ์ฃผ์„์œผ๋กœ ๋ฐœํƒ๋œ ๊ณผ์ •์€
๋งˆ์น˜ ํฅ์„ ๋Œ€์›๊ตฐ์ด ๊ณ ์ข…์„ ์™•์œ„์— ์˜ฌ๋ฆฐ ์—ญ์‚ฌ์™€ ๊ฒน์ณ ๋ณด์˜€๋‹ค.

โ€œ์–ธ์ œ๋‚˜ ์ธ์‹ธ๊ฐ€ ์ •๋‹ต์€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋‹คโ€๋ผ๋Š” ๊นจ๋‹ฌ์Œ์„ ์ฃผ์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ,
์ •์น˜๋ž€ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ํƒ€์ด๋ฐ๊ณผ ์œ„์น˜์˜ ์‚ฐ๋ฌผ์ž„์„ ๋А๊ผˆ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ”ฅ 5. ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น ๋‚ด๋ถ€์˜ ํŒŒ๋ฒŒ ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ

์ค‘๊ตญ์€ ์ผ๋‹น ๋…์žฌ ์ฒด์ œ์ง€๋งŒ, ๊ทธ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์—์„œ๋Š” ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ํŒŒ๋ฒŒ๊ณผ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ํˆฌ์Ÿ์ด ์กด์žฌํ•œ๋‹ค.
์ด๋Š” ์ œ๋„์™€ ์ด๋…์˜ ๋ฌธ์ œ๊ฐ€ ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ ์ธ๊ฐ„ ๋ณธ์„ฑ์—์„œ ๋น„๋กฏ๋œ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ ๋‹คํˆผ์˜ ์–‘์ƒ์ผ์ง€๋„ ๋ชจ๋ฅธ๋‹ค.

์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด, ๊ฑฐ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •์น˜ ๊ธฐ๊ณ„๋กœ ๋ณด์ด๋Š” ์ค‘๊ตญ ๊ณต์‚ฐ๋‹น๋„ ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ์€
์ธ๊ฐ„ ๊ตฐ์ƒ๋“ค์˜ ์ดํ•ด๊ด€๊ณ„๊ฐ€ ๋งž๋ฌผ๋ ค ๋Œ์•„๊ฐ€๋Š” ์กฐ์ง์ž„์„ ํ™•์ธํ•  ์ˆ˜ ์žˆ์—ˆ๋‹ค.


โœ… ๊ฒฐ๋ก 

ใ€ŽPrisoner of the Stateใ€๋Š” ๋‹จ์ˆœํ•œ ํšŒ๊ณ ๋ก์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ,
์ค‘๊ตญ ํ˜„๋Œ€์‚ฌ์˜ ์ค‘์š”ํ•œ ์ „ํ™˜์ ์„ ๋‚ด๋ถ€์ž์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ์—์„œ ์กฐ๋ช…ํ•œ ๊ท€์ค‘ํ•œ ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด๋‹ค.

์ž์˜ค์ฏ”์–‘์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์ธ๋ฌผ์„ ํ†ตํ•ด, ๊ฐœํ˜๊ณผ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ๋ณธ์„ฑ์ด๋ผ๋Š” ์„ธ ๊ฐ€์ง€ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ
๋‹ค์‹œ๊ธˆ ๊นŠ์ด ์ƒ๊ฐํ•˜๊ฒŒ ๋˜์—ˆ๋‹ค.

์—ญ์‚ฌ๋Š” ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์„ ํƒ๊ณผ ๋ณธ์„ฑ์ด ๋งŒ๋“ค์–ด๊ฐ€๋Š” ์„œ์‚ฌ๋‹ค.


๐Ÿ’ก The Irony of Modern Chinese History: Zhao Ziyangโ€™s Memoir

Reading ใ€ŽPrisoner of the State โ€“ The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyangใ€

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  • Title: Prisoner of the State โ€“ The Secret Journal of Premier Zhao Ziyang
  • Author: Zhao Ziyang
  • Recommended for: Readers interested in the Tiananmen Incident and Chinese politics under Deng Xiaoping
  • One-line impression: Understanding Chinaโ€™s modern political system from a first-person perspective!

๐Ÿง 1. Fascination with Modern Chinese History

Modern Chinese history is always compelling.
From Mao Zedong to Deng Xiaoping, and then to Jiang Zemin, the succession of power is clear.
Yet, the transitional period between Deng and Jiang was something I had only vaguely understood.
This book helped me fill in that gap.

In particular, I found it remarkable to gain an insiderโ€™s perspective on the 1989 Tiananmen Square Incident (June 4th Movement).

It also made me wonder: Where are those student protesters now, and what roles do they play in todayโ€™s China?


๐Ÿ˜… 2. The Paradox of Conservatism and Progressivism

One of the most striking points was that in China, โ€œconservativesโ€ are those who support socialism and leftist ideology.
This stands in sharp contrast to how the terms โ€œleftโ€ and โ€œrightโ€ are understood in Korean society.
Through this, I came to better appreciate the different lenses of a capitalist society versus a socialist one.


๐Ÿš€ 3. Zhao Ziyangโ€™s Economic Reforms and Deng Xiaopingโ€™s Decision

Zhao Ziyang was among the first to recognize the need for reform and opening.
His economic foresight was truly impressive, and despite strong opposition from Party elders,
Deng Xiaopingโ€™s decision to support Zhaoโ€™s reforms was equally remarkable.

However, differences in political vision eventually led Zhao to be placed under house arrest,
which remains a regrettable outcome.

I also found myself curious about Dengโ€™s deeper thoughtsโ€”he fully understood the dangers of Maoโ€™s one-man dictatorship,
yet he still resisted moving toward true democracy.


๐Ÿพ 4. Jiang Zeminโ€™s Rise and the Irony of Power

Jiang Zemin, who was then in Shanghai and distant from central authority, was suddenly elevated to Party leadership.
This reminded me of the historical moment when Heungseon Daewongun placed King Gojong on the throne in Korea.

It left me with the lesson: Being an insider is not always the right answer.
Politics, in the end, is a game of timing and positioning.


๐Ÿ”ฅ 5. Factional Struggles within the Communist Party

China may be a one-party dictatorship, but within the Party, various factions and power struggles exist.
This seems less about institutions or ideology, and more about the universal human instinct for power.

Through this, I realized that the massive political machine known as the CCP is, at its core,
still driven by the same web of human interests and rivalries as any other political organization.


โœ… Conclusion

Prisoner of the State is not merely a memoir.
It is a rare record that sheds light, from an insiderโ€™s perspective, on one of the most important turning points in modern Chinese history.

Through Zhao Ziyangโ€™s life, I was once again reminded of three fundamental themes:
reform, power, and human nature.

History, in the end, is a narrative shaped by human choices and human nature itself.

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