本書作者陳有為，為資深國際外交評論家，曾在大陸發表百餘萬字國際評，出版「季辛吉評論」與「風情、人情、世情」兩本專著，曾任駐美高級外交官多年，應邀在美國、台灣、新加坡著名高等學府講學。
天安門事件後，本書作者在天安門事件前後任中國大陸駐美高級外交官，十年後，作者以目擊者與見證者的身份，通過親身回憶與深入探討，展現了當年中美關係急劇惡化後許多鮮為人知的內幕情況。其中最吸引人的鄧小平與中南海領導人對美外交決策，對蘇聯東歐劇變與波斯灣戰爭的內部看法與對策，以及中美兩國高層外交的內情。本書為中國大陸人士第一本以獨立見解寫成的外交回憶錄，是要了解中共外交決策的重要書籍。
The author, Chen Youwei, is a senior international diplomacy critic. He has published more than one million words of international commentary in mainland China, published two monographs "Jisinji Commentary" and "Customs, Humanities, and World Affairs". He once served as a senior diplomat in the United States. For many years, he has been invited to give lectures at famous universities in the United States, Taiwan and Singapore.
After the Tiananmen Incident, the author of this book served as mainland China's senior diplomat in the United States before and after the Tiananmen Incident. Ten years later, as an eyewitness and witness, the author, through personal memories and in-depth discussions, showed the aftermath of the sharp deterioration of Sino-US relations. Lots of little-known insider facts. Among them, the most fascinating ones include Deng Xiaoping and the leaders of Zhongnanhai’s foreign policy decisions towards the United States, their internal views and countermeasures on the drastic changes in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and the Persian Gulf War, as well as the inside story of the high-level diplomacy between China and the United States. This book is the first diplomatic memoir written by mainland Chinese with independent opinions. It is an important book for understanding the CCP's foreign policy-making.
