Deng Xiaoping and China: Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping

by Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping ruled China from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. He abandoned many communist doctrines and incorporated elements of the free-enterprise system into the Chinese economy. Deng engineered reforms in virtually all aspects of China's political, economic, and social life, restoring China to domestic stability and economic growth after the excesses of the cultural revolution. This book covers the selected works of Deng Xiaoping from 1938 to 1992. The text is a translation by the Bureau of Translation of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee.

434 pages, Paperback

First published December 23, 2012

About the author

Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese statesman, revolutionary, and political theorist who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1989. In the aftermath of Mao Zedong's death in 1976, Deng consolidated power to lead China through a period of "reform and opening up" that transformed it into a socialist market economy. He is regarded as the "Architect of Modern China" for contributions to socialism with Chinese characteristics and Deng Xiaoping Theory.