As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth, the Post examines his legacy across generations. In the first of a three-part series, we look at Deng's continuing resonance ...

Deng Xiaoping was appointed Secretary of the General Front-line Committee, which was to command both the Central Plains Field Army and the East China Field Army and to take charge of everything at ...

In July 1952 the Central Committee of the Party transferred Deng Xiaoping to the central organs ... 1956 to May 1966 was a period in which China began to build socialism in an all-round way.

China's rapidly ... reforms than it was when Deng Xiaoping launched his market-oriented reforms in 1978, rapid change is highly unlikely. The required transformation may take several decades ...

Greatly encouraged by these early results, the rehabilitated Deng Xiaoping, once Mao’s right-hand man and now the ‘paramount leader’, announces a new basic policy called ‘reform and opening’. China’s ...

Jeremy Wallace, associate professor of Government at Cornell University, joined CDT to discuss his new book, Seeking Truth and Hiding Facts: Information, Ideology, and Authoritarianism in China.

A revolutionary and political theorist who served as the leader of the China between 1978 to 1989, Deng Xiaoping replaced the then pro-Marxist and father of “Maoism”, Mao Zedong, who was ...