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Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography
David Goodman
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Description for Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography
Paperback. This text aims to reach beyond China's economic success of recent times in an attempt to understand the sources of Deng Xiaaoping's political power. It explores how his entire career has been shaped by both the party and the network of relationships and people within it. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1M. BIC Classification: 1FPC; BGH; HBJF; HBLW; JPFC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
To the outside world Deng Xiaoping represents a contradiction - he is both China's most successful moderniser, and the `Butcher of Beijing', China's supreme leader who must take responsibility for the events surrounding Tiananmen Square in June 1989. However, Deng the politition has no such contradiction: only the Chinese Communist Party can bring modernisation to China. For Deng any threat to the Communist Party is a threat to the project of China's modernisation. This book attempts to reach beyond the spectacular economic success of recent years to understand Deng's own particular role and the sources of his political power. ... Read more
To the outside world Deng Xiaoping represents a contradiction - he is both China's most successful moderniser, and the `Butcher of Beijing', China's supreme leader who must take responsibility for the events surrounding Tiananmen Square in June 1989. However, Deng the politition has no such contradiction: only the Chinese Communist Party can bring modernisation to China. For Deng any threat to the Communist Party is a threat to the project of China's modernisation. This book attempts to reach beyond the spectacular economic success of recent years to understand Deng's own particular role and the sources of his political power. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Routledge
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
234
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780415112536
SKU
V9780415112536
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About David Goodman
David S.G.Goodman is Director of the new Institute for International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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