Deng Xiaoping

Author : Ezra F. Vogel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674257412

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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel Pdf

Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year | A Washington Post Book of the Year | A Bloomberg News Book of the Year | An Esquire China Book of the Year | A Gates Notes Top Read of the Year Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist. Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China’s radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao’s cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted China’s growth. Obsessed with modernization and technology, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of poverty. Yet at the same time he answered to his authoritarian roots, most notably when he ordered the crackdown in June 1989 at Tiananmen Square. Deng’s youthful commitment to the Communist Party was cemented in Paris in the early 1920s, among a group of Chinese student-workers that also included Zhou Enlai. Deng returned home in 1927 to join the Chinese Revolution on the ground floor. In the fifty years of his tumultuous rise to power, he endured accusations, purges, and even exile before becoming China’s preeminent leader from 1978 to 1989 and again in 1992. When he reached the top, Deng saw an opportunity to creatively destroy much of the economic system he had helped build for five decades as a loyal follower of Mao—and he did not hesitate.

Author : Alexander Pantsov,Steven I. Levine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199392032

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Deng Xiaoping by Alexander Pantsov,Steven I. Levine Pdf

This book covers the entire life of Deng Xiaoping. Starting with his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era.

Author : Xiaoming Zhang
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621258

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Deng Xiaoping's Long War by Xiaoming Zhang Pdf

The surprise Chinese invasion of Vietnam in 1979 shocked the international community. The two communist nations had seemed firm political and cultural allies, but the twenty-nine-day border war imposed heavy casualties, ruined urban and agricultural infrastructure, leveled three Vietnamese cities, and catalyzed a decadelong conflict. In this groundbreaking book, Xiaoming Zhang traces the roots of the conflict to the historic relationship between the peoples of China and Vietnam, the ongoing Sino-Soviet dispute, and Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping's desire to modernize his country. Deng's perceptions of the Soviet Union, combined with his plans for economic and military reform, shaped China's strategic vision. Drawing on newly declassified Chinese documents and memoirs by senior military and civilian figures, Zhang takes readers into the heart of Beijing's decision-making process and illustrates the war's importance for understanding the modern Chinese military, as well as China's role in the Asian-Pacific world today.

Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857735393

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Deng Xiaoping by Michael Dillon Pdf

One of the most important figures in global politics during the second half of the 20th century; Deng Xiaoping is generally considered the central figure behind China's economic liberalization programme that produced historically unprecedented growth rates and development beginning in the late 1970s. Lifting nearly a billion people out of poverty, Deng Xiaoping's 'Four Modernisations' called for reform in agriculture, industry, military, and science and technology. Today these reforms are considered to be the crucial turning point in modern Chinese history, enabling China to effectively harness its previously-latent power in its quest to become a global economic superpower. Just ten years after this tremendous achievement, Deng's brutal suppression of the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square severely undermined his international and domestic reputation. To explain the seeming contradictions between Deng Xiaoping's desire for economic liberalization and political conservatism, Michael Dillon's biography utilizes recently-released Chinese sources to detail Deng Xiaoping's emergence from a minority, second-class community in the Sichuan province, via education in France, to his meteoric rise to the top of the CCP's political hierarchy, illustrating the ways in which his life of struggle and survival shaped his political career. Dillon's biography addresses Xiaoping as both an intensely committed communist capable of playing a principal role in the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1961, while incurring the wrath of Mao only ten years later as he was exiled and purged during the Cultural Revolution. Emphasizing Deng Xiaoping's effectiveness as a party operator and political bruiser rather than an intellectual capable of formulating the reforms for which he eventually took credit, this book sheds light on Deng's ability to capitalize upon the planning expertise of other party members. This biography of the central figure in China's economic liberalization is essential for any reader interested in or affected by China's rise to global prominence.

Author : David Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134831227

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Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution by David Goodman Pdf

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : David M. Lampton
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520303478

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Following the Leader by David M. Lampton Pdf

With unique access to Chinese leaders at all levels of the party and government, best-selling author David M. Lampton tells the story of China’s political elites from their own perspectives. Based on over five hundred interviews, Following the Leader offers a rare glimpse into how the attitudes and ideas of those at the top have evolved over the past four decades. Here China’s rulers explain their strategies and ideas for moving the nation forward, share their reflections on matters of leadership and policy, and discuss the challenges that keep them awake at night. As the Chinese Communist Party installs its new president, Xi Jinping, for a presumably ten-year term, questions abound. How will the country move forward as its explosive rate of economic growth begins to slow? How does it plan to deal with domestic and international calls for political reform and to cope with an aging population, not to mention an increasingly fragmented bureaucracy and society? In this insightful book we learn how China’s leaders see the nation’s political future, as well as about its global strategic influence.

Author : Willy Wo-Lap Lam
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822021074620

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China After Deng Xiaoping by Willy Wo-Lap Lam Pdf

China After Deng Xiaoping This book gives bold and thought-provoking answers to the question "What will happen after Deng Xiaoping’s death?" by analysing major political and economic trends in China since the June 4, 1989 crackdown. The intriguing career of patriarch Deng after the Tiananmen Square massacre — and his place in history — is assessed with the help of previously unpublished internal documents and hundreds of interviews with key players. The lively story-telling and incisive judgements are buttressed by generous quotations from the speeches and writings of the politicians who will shape China’s future. China After Deng Xiaoping looks at developments in six crucial areas from 1989 to late 1994, and forecasts their progress into the next decade: a) Deng Xiaoping’s contributions and legacy; b) economic reform, the quasi-capitalist road, and the rules of the game in the socialist market economy; c) the residual influence of the Maoists; d) the expanding role of the People’s Liberation Army; e) political reform and the future of the Chinese Communist Party; f) the post-Deng Xiaoping leadership, tension between Beijing and the regions, and the rise of private entrepreneurs. China After Deng Xiaoping examines the crisis-ridden country that Deng will leave behind. After the June 4 tragedy, Deng made valiant efforts to "mend heaven" by resuscitating economic reform. By early 1995, China seemed on the threshold of integration with the global economic order. However, the political system remains feudal and corrupt. Economic liberalisation has reached a bottleneck. The socio-economic costs of reform are becoming prohibitive unless commensurate steps are taken to modernise the political structure. Will Deng’s anointed successors — led by President Jiang Zemin, Premier Li Peng and Vice-Premier Zhu Rongji — shepherd the country towards a novel phase of reform? Will China take the leap into the international market place? Will the Shanghai Faction led by Jiang and Zhu continue to ride high? What role will the army play? Or has the balance of power been tipped in favor of new forces such as the regional "warlords", the private entrepreneurs and an intelligentsia that has been re-awakened by the information revolution? China After Deng Xiaoping gives clues to the outcome of the slugfest within the Communist party that will break out after the paramount leader’s demise. The book also looks at how the urge to "get rich first" has transformed the mentality of cadres as well as ordinary people. Infinite possibilities — most of them non-Marxist and non-socialist — are beckoning for those who want to embrace the opportunities of the Asia-Pacific century. A new chapter for the world’s longest-continuous civilisation opens as its last patriarch gives up the ghost.

Author : Ruan Ming
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429720154

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Deng Xiaoping by Ruan Ming Pdf

In 1978, Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader, launched the economic reforms that turned the world's most populous nation into an economic dynamo. Yet Deng also shaped the destiny of a China that to this day is locked in the iron embrace of the Chinese Communist Party and its ancient, intractable leaders—even though early in his regime Deng had

Author : Whitney Stewart
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 082254962X

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Deng Xiaoping by Whitney Stewart Pdf

Traces the life and career of the Chinese Communist leader who brought reforms and international trade to China in the 1980s.

Author : Ronald C. Keith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315409672

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Deng Xiaoping and China's Foreign Policy by Ronald C. Keith Pdf

Deng Xiaoping is widely acknowledged as the principal architect of China’s economic reforms, but how far was he also responsible for shaping China’s foreign policy which emphasized “peace and development”? This book explores Deng’s foreign policy and shows how he established basic principles for China to have a foreign policy which supported economic development, which stressed “harmony” in the world rather than “hegemony”, and which avoided conflict and nurtured a peaceful approach. The book outlines how Deng worked to normalize relations with both the United States and the Soviet Union, how he was disappointed by the lack of reciprocation by the United States, where relations are still portrayed in terms of “the China threat”, and how the principles established by Deng continue to be adhered to.

Author : David W. Chang
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1991-06-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349123919

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China Under Deng Xiaoping by David W. Chang Pdf

Based on interviews, field trips to factories and rural communes, this is an attempt to assess the political history of China and project its future development. The book suggests that China will continue to reform and will move away from adherence to Mao Zedong thought.

Author : David Shambaugh
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509546527

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China's Leaders by David Shambaugh Pdf

Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China over 70 years ago, five paramount leaders have shaped the fates and fortunes of the nation and the ruling Chinese Communist Party: Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping, Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao, and Xi Jinping. Under their leaderships, China has undergone an extraordinary transformation from an undeveloped and insular country to a comprehensive world power. In this definitive study, renowned Sinologist David Shambaugh offers a refreshing account of China’s dramatic post-revolutionary history through the prism of those who ruled it. Exploring the persona, formative socialization, psychology, and professional experiences of each leader, Shambaugh shows how their differing leadership styles and tactics of rule shaped China domestically and internationally: Mao was a populist tyrant, Deng a pragmatic Leninist, Jiang a bureaucratic politician, Hu a technocratic apparatchik, and Xi a modern emperor. Covering the full scope of these leaders’ personalities and power, this is an illuminating guide to China’s modern history and understanding how China has become the superpower of today.

Author : Michael Y. M. Kau,Susan H. Marsh
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1563242788

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China in the Era of Deng Xiaoping by Michael Y. M. Kau,Susan H. Marsh Pdf

The product of an international academic conference held at Brown U. in November 1987, this volume provides a comprehensive analysis and assessment of the nature, pattern, and trend of Deng Xiaoping's far-reaching developmental reforms in the decade following the Third Plenum of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in December 1978. The volume, like the conference, is in two parts. In the first, 12 research papers are presented by Western scholars, each followed by comments from two or three participants. In the second part, a senior government official from Beijing outlines the reforms of the post-Mao period, followed by assessments of the policy implications of the reforms by officials from Tokyo, Moscow, and Washington. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Xiaoping Deng
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:252302039

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Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping /1975-1982 by Xiaoping Deng Pdf

Author : Narayan C. Sen
Publisher : FrontPage Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9381043027

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China's Economic Reform by Narayan C. Sen Pdf