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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459709403321

Autore

Pantsov Alexander V.

Titolo

Deng Xiaoping : a revolutionary life / / Alexander V. Pantsov and Steven I. Levine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

0-19-939205-6

0-19-062367-5

0-19-939204-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (641 p.)

Disciplina

951.05092

Soggetti

Heads of state - China

Electronic books.

China Politics and government 1976-2002

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""10 “Critique of the Cult of Personality� and Its Consequences""""11 “A Great Growing Force�""; ""12 Being and Consciousness""; ""13 “Yellow Cat, Black Cat�""; ""14 Number Two Capitalist Roader""; ""15 Arrest and Exile""; ""Part Three The Pragmatist""; ""16 “Soft as Cotton, Sharp as a Needle�""; ""17 New Trials""; ""18 Practice as the Criterion of Truth""; ""19 The Cardinal Principles""; ""20 “Let Some People Get Rich First�""; ""21 One Country, Two Systems""; ""22 Reforms and Democracy""; ""23 The Tiananmen Tragedy""; ""24 A Retired Patriarch""; ""Epilogue""

Sommario/riassunto

Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion changes that would dramatically transform China's economy, society, and position in the world. Three decades later, we are living with the results. China has become the second largest economy and the