Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution: A Political Biography

by David S.G. Goodman

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415112532
• ISBN13: 9780415112536
• Release Date: October 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"