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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

For eight days this fall (Oct. 3-10), Beijing's Bird's Nest will be home to bulls and bucking broncos. Rodeo China is a throwback to the Deng Xiaoping era of renewed China–U.S. cooperation, when Deng ...

Way back in 1992, on a visit to Inner Mongolia, China's then-leader Deng Xiaoping uttered what has since proven to be a visionary declaration. "The Middle East has its oil, China has rare earths ...

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.