Title: Deng Xiaoping : chronicle of an empire /
Authors: Ruan, Ming, 1931-; Liu, Nancy.; Rand, Peter.; Sullivan, Lawrence R.; Rand, Peter, 1942-
Publisher: Westview Press,
Year: 1994
Subjects: Deng, Xiaoping,; China Politics and government; China Politics and government
Contents: Foreword / Andrew J. Nathan -- pt. I. The Basis of Deng Xiaoping's Power (1976-1979). 1. Mao Dies and Hua Guofeng Blocks Deng Xiaoping's Return. 2. Hu Yaobang Paves the Way for Deng's Return. 3. Deng First Joins and Then Breaks with the Democracy Wall Movement. 4. The War to Punish Vietnam Lays the Foundation of Deng's Power -- pt. 11. The Critical Element in Deng Xiaoping's Reform (1979-1986). 5. The Apotheosis of Chinese Reform: the Countryside Overwhelms the Cities. 6. From "Promoting Proletarian Ideology and Eliminating Bourgeois Ideas" to Reforming the Political System. 7. The Situation in Poland and Deng's Second Break with the Democratic Reformers. 8. The Chen Yun Clique and the First Alliance Against Hu Yaobang. 9. Deng Counterattacks on the Economic Reform Front. 10. Deng Breaks with the Democratic Forces for the Last Time and Hu Yaobang Falls -- pt. III. The End of the Empire (1987-1989). 11. Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang Enjoy a Short Honeymoon.