A vivid, balanced, and complete biography of one of the 20th century's most influential figures, Deng Xiaoping, who presided over China's transformation into the world power it is today

• CONTENTS


• Cast of Characters


• Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words


• Introduction


• PART ONE


• THE BOLSHEVIK


• 1 Born in the Year of the Dragon


• 2 From Paris to Moscow: The Lessons of Bolshevism


• 3 From Xi'an to Shanghai


• 4 The Guangxi Experiment


• PART TWO


• THE MAOIST


• 5 'The Spirit of Five Fearlessness'


• 6 Master of the Taihang Mountains


• 7 At the Forefront of the New Democratic Revolution


• 8 Chief of the Southwest Region


• 9 The Beijing Hippodrome


• 10 'Critique of the Cult of Personality' and Its Consequences


• 11 'A Great Growing Force'


• 12 Being and Consciousness


• 13 'Yellow Cat, Black Cat'


• 14 'No. 2 Capitalist Roader'


• 15 Arrest and Exile


• PART THREE


• THE PRAGMATIST


• 16 'Soft as Cotton, Sharp as a Needle'


• 17 New Trials


• 18 Practice as the Criterion of Truth


• 19 The Cardinal Principles


• 20 'Let Some Families Get Rich First'


• 21 One Country, Two Systems


• 22 Reforms and Democracy


• 23 The Tiananmen Tragedy


• 24 A Retired Patriarch


• Epilogue


• Acknowledgments


• Illustration Credits


• Bibliography


• Appendix 1: Deng Xiaoping's Chronology


• Appendix 2: Deng Xiaoping's Genealogy


• Notes


• Index

Alexander V. Pantsov is a professor of history and holds the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He has published numerous scholarly works including fifteen books, among them The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 and Mao: The Real Story.
Steven I. Levine is research faculty associate, Department of History, University of Montana. He is the author, co-author, and editor of numerous works, including Mao: The Real Story and Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam, co-authored with Michael H. Hunt.