Deng Xiaoping

Name: Deng Xiaoping
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

This book tells the inside story of the ideological memo a mano leadership battles that have made today's China a nation of great economic vitality and political despotism. Ruan Ming, a former associate of Deng Xiaoping's first designated successor, Hu Yaobang, was uniquely placed to view these battles with an experienced\u2014and sardonic\u2014eye. > 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\u2014even though early in his regime Deng had held out to the Chinese people the promise of democratic reforms. Such is the \""empire\"" of Deng Xiaoping. It is at one and the same time the world's third largest economy and a country imprisoned behind the bars of a political structure created by the founding \""emperor,\"" Mao Zedong.;