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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
By Vogel, Ezra F.
- ISBN
- 978-0-67405-544-5
- Publisher
- Belknap: Harvard Univ.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on September 1, 2011
If you want to understand China today, you must understand Deng Xiaoping (1904–97). Mao Tse-tung's death in 1976 left in its wake historic achievement and historic tragedy. "We are all to blame," said Deng, who had joined the Communist Party in the 1920s and was Mao's trusted helper in such disasters as the Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s. Deng shared Mao's ambition to make China a strong nation under party leadership, but he cannil...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
