Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping was the architect of the economic reform movement, which was to set the country on a radical new course when the first policies were approved on December 18 ...

Deng's reforms transformed China in just 30 years ... express gratitude for improvements in their daily lives, it is Deng Xiaoping," Vogel wrote. "Did any other leader in the 20th century ...

Westad and Chen deliver a lively account of Chinese history from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 through the first decades of economic reform in the 1980s and 1990s.

It explores the extent to which Deng's momentous economic reforms in 1978 have shaped modern China, what the country's expanded international role under Xi means, and who really makes Chinese foreign ...

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In this week’s issue of the Global Impact newsletter, we look at how Xi Jinping presented himself as the true heir to Deng Xiaoping.

Expectations low of any major shake-up this time at third plenum, a landmark event since Deng Xiaoping's groundbreaking reforms in 1978 The Communist Party of China is about to hold its much ...

Late leader Deng Xiaoping's campaign of “reform and opening up” began four decades ago.The resulting growth has made China the second-largest economy in the world. Hundreds of millions of ...

In the summer of 1920, Deng Xiaoping graduated from the Chongqing Preparatory School, filled with fervent hopes, he and 80 schoolmates boarded a ship for France (traveling steerage) and in October ...

Mao’s warped economic reforms had led to famines in which up to forty-five million people died. Deng Xiaoping fell foul of Mao’s Red Guards for daring to suggest there might be a better way of ...

Margaret Thatcher and Deng Xiaoping in discussion in Beijing on September 24, 1982 during a meeting that eventually lead to the signing of the Sino-British Joint Declaration on the future of Hong Kong ...

At an agenda-setting meeting last month, China's leaders unveiled reforms that some experts say do not go far enough to boost private-sector confidence and the flagging economy. Parliament was ...