Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China's boldest strategist--the pragmatic, disciplined force behind China's radical economic, technological, and social transformation.
Print Book, English, 2011
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 2011
Biographies
xxiv, 876 p., [22] p. de pl. : ill., carte ; 25 cm
9780674055445, 0674055446
755872113
From revolutionary to builder to reformer, 1904-1969
Banishment and return, 1969-1974
Bringing order under Mao, 1974-1975
Looking forward under Mao, 1975
Sidelined as the Mao era ends, 1976
Return under Hua, 1977-1978
Three turning points, 1978
Setting the limits of freedom, 1978-1979
The Soviet-Vietnamese threat, 1978-1979
Opening to Japan, 1978
Opening to the United States, 1978-1979
Launching the Deng administration, 1979-1980
Deng's art of governing
Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979-1984
Economic readjustment and rural reform, 1978-1982
Accelerating economic growth and opening, 1982-1989
One country, two systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet
The military: preparing for modernization
The ebb and flow of politics
Beijing spring, April 15-May 17, 1989
The Tiananmen tragedy, May 17-June 4, 1989
Standing firm, 1989-1992
Deng's finale: the southern journey, 1992
China transformed