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

Goodman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415112532 ISBN 13: 9780415112536

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

David S.G.Goodman is Director of the new Institute for International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Reviews

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: 0415112532
• ISBN 13: 9780415112536
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 236