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Zusatztext Pantsov and Levine do well to highlight Deng's studied indifference to the endemic and flagrant corruption that his reforms occasioned... Commendable work. Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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 Zusammenfassung 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 Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
