Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China

by Richard Evans

Book Overview

Credited as the architect that brought the Chinese economy into the global market, Deng Xiaoping is considered one of China's greatest leaders. From his peasant upbringing, to his political rise in Bejing, this complete biography gives a rare look inside the private life of the celebrated politician.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140139451
• ISBN13: 9780140139457
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Excellent, truly valuable biography

I enjoyed enormously this book: it doesnt try to sell a myth or an epic and doesnt "side" with Deng. The author is a former diplomat and an "old china hand" and the reader can fully benefit from a deep, thoughtful and unemotional analysis by an insider. The book is factual, doesnt try to prove any theory and gives you also an excellent overview of the whole Chinese history in this century. I particularly enjoyed the shrewd analysis of all the characters and of their motivations, as you would expect it from the eyes of a professional diplomat gauging his counterparts.