Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China [electronic resource] / Ezra F. Vogel.
Vogel, Ezra F.
2011
DS778.T39 V64 2011eb
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Title Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China [electronic resource] / Ezra F. Vogel.
Author Vogel, Ezra F.
ISBN 9780674062832 electronic book
9780674055445
Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 876 p.) : ill.
Call Number DS778.T39 V64 2011eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 951.05092 B
Summary 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.--From publisher information.
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Map : China in the 1980s
Preface : In search of Deng
Introduction : The man and his mission
pt. 1. Deng's background
From revolutionary to builder to reformer, 1904-1969
pt. 2. Deng's tortuous road to the top, 1969-1977
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
pt. 3. Creating the Deng era, 1978-1980
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
pt. 4. The Deng era, 1978-1989
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
pt. 5. Challenges to the Deng era, 1989-1992
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
pt. 6. Deng's place in history
China transformed
Key people in the Deng era
Chinese Communist Party congresses and plenums, 1956-1992.

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