Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle Of An Empire - Softcover

Ming, Ruan

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9780813319216: Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle Of An Empire

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ISBN 10: 0813319218 ISBN 13: 9780813319216

Publisher: Westview Press, 1994

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"An inside view of how politics work in the era of Deng Xiaoping. Ruan Ming, who participated in the initial phase of China's reforms, has written an engrossing account of behind-the-scenes political machinations. It is the story of the fierce personal, political, and ideological struggles that have led China to its present course--economic reforms at the expense of political reforms".--Merle Goldman, Boston University. Lightning Print On Demand Title

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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 (CCP) and its ancient, intractable leaders - even 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.

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