Senior Fellow Orville Schell‘s book Mandate of Heaven was cited in an article in The New Yorker for the strong parallels present in the China uprising in Tienanmen Square in 1989 and the recent civil riots taking place in Egypt. “It was bracing to be reminded in vivid, emotional detail of just how murderous the People’s Liberation Army was when ordered to clear the protest,” says author of the article Steve Coll. “The students and the urban workers who had persuaded themselves that they were near victory were also stunned by the Army’s indiscriminate, decisive violence. They seemed to expect until the last hours that the military would stand with them. We can hope, at least, for something better in Egypt during the days ahead.”