Deng Xiaoping. The Man Who Made Modern China

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: As New
Jacket Condition: As New
Publisher: I B Tauris
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2015
Edition: First Edition

Description: 330 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout.

Publishers Description: One of the most important figures in global politics during the second half of the 20th century; Deng Xiaoping is generally considered the central figure behind Chinas economic liberalization programme that produced historically unprecedented growth rates and development beginning in the late 1970s. Lifting nearly a billion people out of poverty, Deng Xiaopings Four Modernisations called for reform in agriculture, industry, military, and science and technology. Today these reforms are considered to be the crucial turning point in modern Chinese history, enabling China to effectively harness its previously-latent power in its quest to become a global economic superpower. Just ten years after this tremendous achievement, Dengs brutal suppression of the democracy movement at Tiananmen Square severely undermined his international and domestic reputation.To explain the seeming contradictions between Deng Xiaopings desire for economic liberalization and political conservatism, Michael Dillons biography utilizes recently-released Chinese sources to detail Deng Xiaopings emergence from a minority, second-class community in the Sichuan province, via education in France, to his meteoric rise to the top of the CCPs political hierarchy, illustrating the ways in which his life of struggle and survival shaped his political career. Dillons biography addresses Xiaoping as both an intensely committed communist capable of playing a principal role in the Great Leap Forward from 1958 to 1961, while incurring the wrath of Mao only ten years later as he was exiled and purged during the Cultural Revolution. Emphasizing Deng Xiaopings effectiveness as a party operator and political bruiser rather than an intellectual capable of formulating the reforms for which he eventually took credit, this book sheds light on Dengs ability to capitalize upon the planning expertise of other party members.This biography of the central figure in Chinas economic liberalization is essential for any reader interested in or affected by Chinas rise to global prominence.

ISBN: 9781780768953