Deng Xiaoping : a revolutionary life / Alexander V. Pantsov, with Steven I. Levine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pantsov, Alexander, 1955- author.

Levine, Steven I., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deng, Xiaoping, 1904-1997.

Deng, Xiaoping.

Heads of state--China--Biography.

Heads of state.

China.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xx, 610 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2015]

Summary:

Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine's new biography of Deng Xiaoping does what no other biography has done: based on newly discovered documents, it covers his entire life, from his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era. Thanks to unprecedented access to Russian archives containing massive files on the Chinese Communist Party, the authors present a wealth of new material on Deng dating back to the 1920s.

Contents:

The Bolshevik

Born in the Year of the Dragon

From Paris to Moscow: the lessons of Bolshevism

From Xian to Shanghai

The Guangxi experiment

The Maoist

"The spirit of five fearlessness"

Master of the Taihang Mountains

At the forefront of the new democratic revolution

Chief of the Southwest Region

The Beijing Hippodrome

"Critique of the cult of personality" and its consequences

"A great growing force"

Being and consciousness

"Yellow cat, black cat"

"No. 2 capitalist roader"

Arrest and exile

The pragmatist

"Soft as cotton, sharp as a needle"

New trials

Practice as the criterion of truth

The cardinal principles

"Let some families get rich first"

One country, two systems

Reforms and democracy

The Tiananmen tragedy

A retired patriarch.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780199392032

019939203X

OCLC:

892700278