Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography

ISBN-13: 9780415112536 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 234 str.

David S. G. Goodman

Opis

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 modernization to China. For Deng any threat to the Communist Party is a threat to the project of China's modernization. This book attempts to understand Deng's own particular role and the sources of his political power. Deng Xiaoping was involved with the communist movement before there was even a Communitst Party of China and his entire career has been shaped by both the party and the network of relationships and people within it. The author also explores the way in which Deng has survived being purged three times via his contacts with key politicians, Zhou Enlai in Paris in the early 1920s and Mao Zedong from 1933 to the early 1960s.

Spis treści

1 Deng Xiaoping, communism and revolution 2 Childhood, youth and travel, 1904–1937 3 Military service, 1937–1952 4 Party affairs and leadership, 1952–1960 5 Reconstruction and Mao, 1960–1966 6 Modernization and conflict, 1969–1978 7 The foundations of reform, 1979–1984 8 Reaction, readjustment and retirement, 1985 and after 9 Comrade Deng: a preliminary assessment 10 Deng Xiaoping in his own words: speeches and writings

O autorze

David S.G.Goodman is Director of the new Institute for International Studies at the University of Technology, Sydney.