num_pages: 928
description: Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of Chinas boldest strategist.Once described by Mao Zedong as a ;needle inside a ball of cotton; Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind Chinas radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution dissolved Maos cult of personality and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted Chinas growth. Obsessed with modernization and technology Deng opened trade relations with the West which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of poverty. Yet at the same time he answered to his authoritarian roots most notably when he ordered the crackdown in June 1989 at Tiana
language: English
title: Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
publisher: Belknap Press