His impact will be felt well into the next century as China's economic reforms begin to have impressive effects. This volume analyzes the effect of Deng Xiaoping's leadership on China, dealing in turn with Studies on contemporary China.
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This article has been cited by the following publications. This list is generated based on data provided by CrossRef. Yew, Chiew Ping From the Regional Cold War to the Present. Journal of Chinese Political Science, Vol. Is Taiwan Studies in Decline? In , at the age of 16, Deng left his rural village for Shanghai, where he won a work-study scholarship for a program in Paris. So we went West to learn. In France, Deng learned how to play bridge; became such a devoted soccer fan he once sold his overcoat to buy a ticket to a game; and developed a taste for croissants in a stopover in Paris after a trip to New York he ordered croissants.
He reportedly developed his antipathy towards capitalism through his experiences working in France as a part-time arm factory worker, a fitter at a Renault factory, a train conductor and a shoe assembler. The more he worked at these places the more he became involved in Communist activities. Deng moved from town to town as he changed jobs. In he made shoes for eight months at a rubber plant in the town of Montargis, about kilometers south of Paris.
He lived behind one of the plants workshops and worked around glue that emitted toxic benzene vapors. Before he left his boss wrote: Communism was popular among laborers in France after World War I. He helped distribute the party newsletter, which earned him a mock degree of "Doctor of Mimeography. Deng was married three times. Little is known of his first wife. She died in childbirth in His second wife divorced him in when he was in political trouble in and married a man, whose accusations forced Deng to endure brutal self-criticism sessions within the Communist Party.
They were married in and had five children. Zhuo Lin died in at the age of After her death, according to Associated Press, the central committee said Zhuo, who was born in southwestern Yunnan province in and joined the party in , was an excellent party member and a "time-honored loyal communist fighter," Xinhua said. Zhuo was not politically active and most of her public appearances were limited to ceremonial occasions. In , months after Deng died, Zhuo and daughter Deng Nan attended festivities in Hong Kong marking the return of the British colony to Chinese rule, as a tribute to Deng's role in winning back the territory.
Associated Press, July 29, ]. Deng was regarded as a committed family man. He fathered two sons and three daughters. One his greatest joys in the last years of his life was spending time with his grandchildren.
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Like Mao, Deng Xiaoping also had his share of extramarital affairs. According to Mao's doctor Dr. Li Zhisui he impregnated a young nurse who had been sent from Shanghai to "serve Mao. Upon returning to China in Deng joined the fledgling Chinese Communist party. His early assignments included helping a Soviet-supported warlord and raising a peasant army in remote areas of Guanxi province, where he met up with Mao Zedong.
According to one report in the s Deng ordered the execution of a battalion commandeer who shot a dying man who was in great pain to put him out of misery. Deng criticized the commander for making a decision based on emotion. Deng Xiaoping was inspired by Mao's doctrine of peasant revolution which made him unpopular with the pro-Moscow factions within the party. He was briefly jailed. Between and , Deng worked with Mao in the Jiangxi province setting up a base for the Red Army.
When Mao was kicked out of the Communist Party for advocating guerrilla fighting tactic, Deng was ousted along with him.
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Deng accompanied Mao on the Long March in When his daughter later asked what he did, he replied, "Just followed. During the Long March, Deng became close with Mao, who gave him a high position in the "government" that controlled large parts of northern China. He had successes with programs like the "great production movement" which aimed to boost grain harvest by rewarding hard work. Mao soon began relying on Deng as his henchman. Deng spearheaded Mao's attack on China's learned class in the "Anti-Rightist Campaign," organizing the purging, criticizing and jailing of about , of China's best and brightest.
Mao also relied on Deng to fix the messes that he routinely made of China's economy -- such as the famines 30 million dead of the disastrous Great Leap Forward and, later, of the Cultural Revolution. Mao might have been a monster, but he was a monster with a back pocket, and Deng was always there. Deng locked horns with Mikhail Suslov, the Soviets' chief ideologue, and with party leader Nikita Khrushchev, too. Mao, Vogel writes, was petrified that his followers would do to him what Khrushchev did to Stalin -- condemn him.
After Deng's vitriolic attack against the Soviets, Mao was persuaded that his legacy was safe with Deng. Deng rose from 28th in the Communist ranks in to one of Mao's 12 Deputy Premiers in the mids. Deng was in Moscow in , when Nikita Khrushchev stunned Communist leaders at the Party Congress by denouncing Stalin's personality cult. Deng recommended that the Chinese Communist also abandon Mao-worshiping, a move that later came back to haunt him in the Cultural Revolution. In the late s, Deng oversaw the Anti-Rightist movement which claimed over , victims. He knew of and ordered the execution of thousands of landlords.
Deng also reportedly directed the occupation of Tibet in s and opposed the "Hundred Flowers Bloom" program of liberalization on the grounds that changes should be made from within the party not by the people. Deng played a key roles in the crackdown of the movement.
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Mao and Deng had a falling out over the Great Leap Forward. Deng refused to carry out many of Mao's ridiculous agricultural reforms, a move that saved thousands of lives but embarrassed Mao.
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In , Mao jumped on Deng for not sitting next to him at a party meeting and screamed, "You have put the screws on me for the last time! Now, for once, I am going out put a screw in you. In , during the Cultural Revolution, Deng was labeled as the "No.
During a humiliating self criticism session Deng was accused of being a "fascist," a "traitor" and a practitioner of cat-ism a reference to his white cat, black cat remark. During the sessions, Red Guards shouted, "Cook the dog's head in boiling oil! In , Deng's son was paralyzed after jumping or being pushed from a window to escape members of the Red Guard. Deng younger brother was driven to suicide by Red Guard attacks. Deng himself was put under house in Beijing for two years and then sent to Jiangxi province where worked in a tractor-repair factory and was confined to an infantry school, a fate that could have much worse.
Later he said, "Chairman Mao protected me. Evan Osnos wrote in The New Yorker: At a state banquet, he was seated near the actress Shirley MacLaine, who told Deng how impressed she had been on a trip to China some years earlier. She recalled her conversation with a scientist who said that he was grateful to Mao Zedong for removing him from his campus and sending him, as Mao did millions of other intellectuals during the Cultural Revolution, to toil on a farm.
Deng in his revolutionary days. In , Deng was called back to Beijing to help extract China from the chaos of the Cultural Revolution. The between-the-lines announcement of his return from political oblivion was his inclusion on the guest list for state dinner for Prince Sihanouk of Cambodia mentioned in a party newspaper and his entrance on the arm of Mao's favorite niece. Not only was Deng rehabilitated, he was named vice prime minister and vice chairman of the powerful Central Military Commission.
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