Deng Xiaoping - Ruan Ming

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Résumé :
This book tells the inside story of the ideological memo a mano leadership battles that have made today's China a nation of great economic vitality and political despotism. Ruan Ming, a former associate of Deng Xiaoping's first designated successor, Hu Yaobang, was uniquely placed to view these battles with an experienced?and sardonic?eye.

Biographie:
Ruan Ming also author of 'Tell the World: What Happened' 1989, 'Hu Yao Bang on Turning Point of History' 2001

Sommaire:
Foreword -- Note from the Translators and Editors -- Historical Chronology: 1976-1993 -- Introduction -- The Basis of Deng Xiaoping?s Power (1976-1979) -- Mao Dies and Hua Guofeng Blocks Deng Xiaoping?s Return -- Hu Yaobang Paves the Way for Deng?s Return -- Deng First Joins and Then Breaks with the Democracy Wall Movement -- The War to Punish Vietnam Lays the Foundation of Deng?s Power -- The Critical Element in Deng Xiaoping?s Reform (1979?1986) -- The Apotheosis of Chinese Reform: The Countryside Overwhelms the Cities -- From ?Promoting Proletarian Ideology and Eliminating Bourgeois Ideas? to Reforming the Political System -- The Situation in Poland and Deng?s Second Break with the Democratic Reformers -- The Chen Yun Clique and the First Alliance Against Hu Yaobang -- Deng Counterattacks on the Economic Reform Front -- Deng Breaks with the Democratic Forces for the Last Time and Hu Yaobang Falls -- The End of the Empire (1987?1989) -- Deng Xiaoping and Zhao Ziyang Enjoy a Short Honeymoon -- The Self-Isolating ?New Authoritarians? -- Tragedy for Democracy in Tiananmen Square -- The Defeat of Violence and the Last Days of the Empire -- Epilogue to the English Edition