To the outside world Deng Xiaoping represents a contradiction - he is both China's most successful moderniser, and the Butcher of Beijing', China's supreme leader who must take responsibility for the events surrounding Tiananmen Square in June 1989. However, Deng the politition...
First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
David Goodman reaches beyond China's spectacular economic success of recent years to understand the sources of Deng's political power. This is a balanced evaluation of the career of one of the century's great political survivors.