Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography (Routledge in Asia) - Hardcover

Goodman, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415112524 ISBN 13: 9780415112529

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Although 91 years old, Deng Xiaoping is still believed to be the most powerful leader in China. Widely considered responsible for China's rapid economic growth, political reform, and open-door policy since the late Seventies, he is also linked to the Tiananmen Massacre in Beijing in June 1993. He thus represents a paradox, an enigma to the outside world. Goodman's political biography gives a detailed explanation of the relationship between these two images. Deng is characterized as a "committed communist" with a pragmatic view, who would like to bring forth China's modernization through the "organizational" rather than "ideological" leadership of the Communist party. The author's approach is more analytical and scholarly than Richard Evan's in Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China (LJ 1/94). Recommended for academic libraries. [Librarians may also wish to consider a recent account by Deng's daughter Deng Maomao, Deng Xiaoping: My Father, LJ 1/95.?Ed.]?Mark Meng, St. John's Univ. Lib., New Yor.
-?Mark Meng, St. John's Univ. Lib., New York
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Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415112524
• ISBN 13: 9780415112529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 234