Status Updates From Selected Works of Deng Xiao...

“The Present Situation and the Tasks Before Us”, Deng’s speech to cadres in Jan 1980, is perhaps the best single things from Deng to read. I think it’s his longest speech/“work” in this book, and manages to effectively sum up all his ideas convincingly. It was published as a pamphlet in China, indicating that the party also agreed on this. An essential text on party building and socialist construction.