Original sentence: Deng Xiaoping  (; 22 August 1904 19 February 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician.Inheriting a China wrought with social and institutional woes left over from the devastating Cultural Revolution and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng was the core of the second generation of Chinese leadership
Edited sentence: Born into a farming background in Guang'an, Sichuan, Deng studied and worked abroad in France in the 1920s, where he would come under the influence of Marxism.Deng Xiaoping  (; 22 August 1904 19 February 1997) was a prominent Chinese politician, statesman, theorist, and diplomat.He joined the Communist Party of China in 1923.He would also oversee China's economy in the 1960s and grew at odds with Chairman Mao Zedong; he would be purged twice during the Cultural Revolution but regained prominence in 1978 by outmaneuvering Mao's chosen successor, Hua Guofeng.Inheriting a country wrought with social and institutional woes left over from the Cultural Revolution and other mass political movements of the Mao era, Deng became the core of the second generation of Chinese leadership.Upon his return to China he worked as a political commissar in rural regions and is considered a "revolutionary veteran" during the Long March.Upon the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Deng worked in Tibet and other southwestern regions to consolidate Communist control