When Mao Zedong died in 1976, China was at a crossroads—would it continue his radical, ideological rule or embrace modernization? What followed was a brutal power struggle between Mao’s chosen ...

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 ...

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.

Publishing House issued several of new books about Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) recently, to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.

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 ...

Deng Xiaoping served as Chief of the Political Section and political instructor and Secretary of the Communist Party organization in the Academy. The Academy trained a number of political aware ...

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 ...

In Nanning Deng Xiaoping made contact with Yu Zuobo and Li Minrui under the alias of Deng Bin and began building revolutionary forces. In October Yu and Li's campaign against Chiang was defeated.