If there is no Deng Xiaoping, can China make its country as advanced as it is today? Deng has made great transformation in China’s history, not only from a poor to prosperous country, but also from a closed-totalitarian to an open-modern country. This book contains a lively portrait of the man, written by Ezra F. Vogel –a Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus at Harvard and former Director of Harvard Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and the Asia Center. Deng was at sometime a rising star under Mao Zedong but experienced being sidelined because of his stance as a revisionist and accused as a person pursuing the capitalist road. He was even completely stripped of all his positions and forbidden to take part in high-level party discussions and public meetings. But not long after Mao’s death in 1976, under the leadership of Hua Guofeng, Deng returned to work and was officially returned to all positions he had held before. After that, Deng’s political career went up until he reac...
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