Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China / Ezra F. Vogel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vogel, Ezra F.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997.

Deng, Xiaoping.

Heads of state--China--Biography.

Heads of state.

China.

China--Politics and government--1976-2002.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 876 pages, 22 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

Contents:

Deng's Background

1 From Revolutionary to Builder to Reformer, 1904-1969 15

Deng's Tortuous Road to the Top, 1969-1977

2 Banishment and Return, 1969-1974 49

3 Bringing Order under Mao, 1974-1975 91

4 Looking Forward under Mao, 1975 120

5 Sidelined as the Mao Era Ends, 1976 157

6 Return under Hua, 1977-1978 184

Creating the Deng Era, 1978-1980

7 Three Turning Points, 1978 217

8 Setting the Limits of Freedom, 1978-1979 249

9 The Soviet-Vietnamese Threat, 1978-1979 266

10 Opening to Japan, 1978 294

11 Opening to the United States, 1978-1979 311

12 Launching the Deng Administration, 1979-1980 349

The Deng Era, 1978-1989

13 Deng's Art of Governing 377

14 Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979-1984 394

15 Economic Readjustment and Rural Reform, 1978-1982 423

16 Accelerating Economic Growth and Opening, 1982-1989 450

17 One Country, Two Systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet 477

18 The Military: Preparing for Modernization 523

19 The Ebb and Flow of Politics 553

Challenges to the Deng Era, 1989-1992

20 Beijing Spring, April 15-May 17, 1989 595

21 The Tiananmen Tragedy, May 17-June4, 1989 616

22 Standing Firm, 1989-1992 640

23 Deng's Finale: The Southern journey, 1992 664

Deng's Place in History

24 China Transformed 693.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674055445

0674055446

OCLC:

706677501