Deng Xiaoping the man who made modern China - Dillon, Michael 1949- (I.B. Tauris, 2014)
Includes bibliographical references
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Plates; Acknowledgements; Preface; New Sources for the Life of Deng Xiaoping; 1 Favoured Son of Sichuan: Growing Up in Paifang (1904-20); 2 À la recherche du Deng perdu: The Roots of Chinese Communism in Provincial France after World War I (1920-6); 3 Moscow and the Chinese Revolution (1926-31); 4 Soldier and Communist: Triumph over Adversity in Jiangxi (1931-4); 5 Revolution and Resistance: The Long March, Yan'an and the Taihang Mountains (1934-45); 6 Civil War and New China (1945-9); 7 Liberating Sichuan and Ruling from Chongqing (1949-52)
8 Beijing and Zhongnanhai (1952-6)9 Campaign against Rightists and Intellectuals (1956-7); 10 The Great Leap Forward, Confrontation at Lushan and the Sino-Soviet Split (1958-61); 11 Rebuilding the Economy (1962-5); 12 Capitalist Roader Number 2 (1966-73); 13 Return from the Cowshed (1973-5); 14 Running China (January 1975); 15 Attaining Power (1976-8); 16 Economic Reform and Opening to the World (1978-9); 17 Retreating to Advance: From the Gang of Four to the Democracy Movement (1980-92); 18 Southern Tour and the Deng Legacy (1992-7)
Appendix: Key Personalities in Deng Xiaoping's Political CareerNotes; Bibliography; Plate Section
Deng Xiaoping has generally been given the credit for the reforms of the late 1970s that put China on the path to spectacular economic growth and development, a process that has turned it into one of the greatest powers of the twenty-first century. His 'Four Modernisations' - reform in agriculture, industry, military, science and technology - unveiled at the Third Plenum of the Central Committee in 1978 undoubtedly paved the way for China's rise to superpower status. Yet, only a decade after this, his greatest achievement, Deng fell dramatically from grace, becoming reviled both within and out