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  1. Deng Xiaoping - Wikipedia

    Emerging as China's most influential figure after Mao Zedong 's death in 1976, Deng consolidated political power and guided the country into an era of reform and opening up that transitioned the …

  2. Deng Xiaoping | Biography, Reforms, Transformation of China, & Facts ...

    Deng Xiaoping, Chinese communist leader who was the most powerful figure in China from the late 1970s until he died in 1997. He abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to …

  3. Deng Xiaoping - New World Encyclopedia

    Although Deng provided the theoretical background and the political support which allowed economic reform to occur, it is in general consensus amongst historians that few of the economic reforms that …

  4. DENG XIAOPING'S LIFE | Facts and Details

    Deng Xiaoping was the leader of China from 1978 (two years after Mao's death) until his death in February, 1997. The last of the great revolutionary leaders of China and a Time Man of the Year …

  5. Deng Xiaoping and the Economic Reform | World History

    Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese revolutionary and statesman, the leader of the People’s Republic of China from 1978 until his retirement in 1989. After Mao Zedong’s death, Deng led China through far …

  6. Deng Xiaoping, Part I - Asia Society

    Taking charge of China after Mao's death in 1976, Deng's "Reforms and Opening Up" ushered in the growth Chinese had dreamt of for so long. Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) was born to a gentry family in …

  7. Commanding Heights : Deng Xiaoping | on PBS

    Deng wanted to create a wealthy and powerful China, not a utopian or messianic paradise. He was a nationalist, and communism and the party were the mechanisms by which to reach that objective.

  8. Xiyue Deng (1989–2023) of Edwardsville, IL | Obituary

    Xiyue “Elsie” Deng, 34, of Edwardsville, Illinois passed away at 11:45 p.m. on Friday, September 8, 2023, at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. She was born April 1, 1989, in Qin Huangdao,...

  9. Deng Xiaoping - Wikiwand

    Emerging as China's most influential figure after Mao Zedong 's death in 1976, Deng consolidated political power and guided the country into an era of "reform and opening up" that transitioned the …

  10. Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China - Harvard University …

    Oct 14, 2013 · Once described by Mao Zedong as a “needle inside a ball of cotton,” Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China’s radical transformation in the late twentieth …