Deng Xiaoping
Subtitle: a revolutionary life
By: Alexander V. Pantsov, with Steven I. Levine
Contributors: Levine, Steven I., author
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 610
ISBN-13: 9780199392032; 9780190623678
Subjects: Heads of state; Biography
Description: Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine's new biography of Deng Xiaoping does what no other biography has done: based on newly discovered documents, it covers his entire life, from his childhood and student years to the post-Tiananmen era. Thanks to unprecedented access to Russian archives containing massive files on the Chinese Communist Party, the authors present a wealth of new material on Deng dating back to the 1920s.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 537-580) and index.
Table of contents: title: The Bolshevik; title: Born in the Year of the Dragon; title: From Paris to Moscow : the lessons of Bolshevism; title: From Xi'an to Shanghai; title: The Guangxi experiment; title: The Maoist; title: "The spirit of five fearlessness"; title: Master of the Taihang Mountains; title: At the forefront of the new democratic revolution; title: Chief of the Southwest Region; title: The Beijing Hippodrome; title: "Critique of the cult of personality" and its consequences; title: "A great growing force"; title: Being and consciousness; title: "Yellow cat, black cat"; title: "Number two capitalist roader"; title: Arrest and exile; title: The pragmatist; title: "Soft as cotton, sharp as a needle"; title: New trials; title: Practice as the criterion of truth; title: The cardinal principles; title: "Let some families get rich first"; title: One country, two systems; title: Reforms and democracy; title: The Tiananmen tragedy; title: A retired patriarch.