14%OFF
Stock image for illustration purposes only - book cover, edition or condition may vary.
Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
Alexander V. Pantsov
€ 23.00
€ 19.76
FREE Delivery in Ireland
Description for Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
Paperback. .
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion changes that would dramatically transform China's economy, society, and position in the world. Three decades later, we are living with the results. China has become the second largest economy and the workshop of the ... Read more
Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao's from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao's death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China's post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in motion changes that would dramatically transform China's economy, society, and position in the world. Three decades later, we are living with the results. China has become the second largest economy and the workshop of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190623678
SKU
V9780190623678
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Alexander V. Pantsov
Alexander V. Pantsov is a professor of history and holds the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He has published numerous scholarly works including fifteen books, among them The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 and Mao: The Real Story. Steven I. Levine is research faculty associate, Department of History, ... Read more
Reviews for Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
The best biography of the man who, along with Mao, was China's dominant statesman of the 20th century.
Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Week
Like the heroes of a Hollywood Western riding into town to clean up a mess, Pantsov and Levine have swept into the unruly genre of contemporary Chinese biography. Pantsov contends with Soviet archives, while Levine ... Read more
Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Week
Like the heroes of a Hollywood Western riding into town to clean up a mess, Pantsov and Levine have swept into the unruly genre of contemporary Chinese biography. Pantsov contends with Soviet archives, while Levine ... Read more