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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 1920's, 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.

Heads of state --- Deng, Xiaoping, --- Teng, Hsiao-pʻing, --- Teng, Shiao-ping, --- Tŭng, So-pʻyŏng, --- Tō, Shōhei, --- Dén, Si︠a︡o-pin, --- Deng, Xiao Ping, --- Dengxiaoping, --- Teng, Hsziao-ping, --- Дэн, Сяопин, --- Dėn, Si︠a︡opin, --- Đặng, Tiểu Bình, --- Tiṅ, Źaʼo-phiṅ, --- Tiṅ-źaʼo-phiṅ, --- 鄧小平, --- 邓小平, --- [トウ] 小平, --- Deng, Bin, --- Teng, Pin, --- 邓斌, --- Tiṅ-śi, --- China --- Politics and government

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David Goodman reaches beyond China's spectacular economic success of recent years to understand the sources of Deng's political power. This is a balanced evaluation of the career of one of the century's great political survivors.

Heads of state --- Deng, Xiaoping, --- Teng, Hsiao-pʻing, --- Teng, Shiao-ping, --- Tŭng, So-pʻyŏng, --- Tō, Shōhei, --- Dén, Si︠a︡o-pin, --- Deng, Xiao Ping, --- Dengxiaoping, --- Teng, Hsziao-ping, --- Дэн, Сяопин, --- Dėn, Si︠a︡opin, --- Đặng, Tiểu Bình, --- Tiṅ, Źaʼo-phiṅ, --- Tiṅ-źaʼo-phiṅ, --- 鄧小平, --- 邓小平, --- [トウ] 小平, --- Deng, Bin, --- Teng, Pin, --- 邓斌, --- Tiṅ-śi,

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S05/0232 --- Heads of state --- -#SML: Chinese memorial library --- Heads of government --- Rulers --- State, Heads of --- Executive power --- Statesmen --- China: Biographies and memoirs--Deng Xiaoping --- Deng, Xiaoping --- Deng Xiaoping --- deng xiao ping --- #SML: Chinese memorial library --- Deng, Xiaoping, --- Teng, Hsiao-pʻing, --- Teng, Shiao-ping, --- Tŭng, So-pʻyŏng, --- Tō, Shōhei, --- Dén, Si︠a︡o-pin, --- Deng, Xiao Ping, --- Dengxiaoping, --- Teng, Hsziao-ping, --- Дэн, Сяопин, --- Dėn, Si︠a︡opin, --- Đặng, Tiểu Bình, --- Tiṅ, Źaʼo-phiṅ, --- Tiṅ-źaʼo-phiṅ, --- 鄧小平, --- 邓小平, --- [トウ] 小平, --- Deng, Bin, --- Teng, Pin, --- 邓斌, --- Tiṅ-śi,

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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.

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