Deng: A Political Biography

ISBN-13: 9780815354758 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 450 str.

Benjamin Yang

Opis

A comprehensive exposition of the life of Deng Xiaoping, the pre-eminent leader of late 20th-century China. Notable for the detail it provides on elite-level Chinese Communist Party politics, this biography combines political and personal details, with a sweep of 20th-century Chinese history.

Spis treści

Prologue: Why Deng?; Like Father, Like Son (1904-1917); Bound for Abroad (1918-1920); French Capitalists make Chinese Communists (1921-1925); Russia and Beyond (1926-1929); Unfortunate Royal Commissioner (1929-1932); Bad Luck Turn into Good Fortune (1933-1936); Battlefield as "Safe Haven" (1937-1945); Battlefield as "Gold Mine" (1946-1949); The Lord of the Southwest (1950-1952); A Ladder of Official Success is Built from Shoulders of Victims (1953-1956); Exuberance after Consecutive Promotions (1957-1959); Fatigue after Leaping Forward (1960-1965); Bombardment from Within the General Headquarters (1966-1972); The Capitalist Roader on the Road (1973-1975); The Year of the Dragon (1976); Back to Power (1977-1980); The Summit of Name and Fame (1981-1984); Unsuccessful Successors (1985-1988); Bloodshed at the Gate of Heavenly Peace (1989); Retirement or Not? (1990-1993); Supreme Maturity (1994-1996); Epilogue - Communist China With or Without Him.

O autorze

Benjamin Yang came in 1981 from Beijing University to Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1986. Since then he has until recently worked with Harvard’s John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research and distinguished himself as a serious scholar and author of several influential academic writings. Yang is currently professor of international politics at the Chinese People’s University in Beijing.