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.
This study reaches beyond China’s economic success of recent years to understand the sources of Deng’s political power. It explores the way in which Deng has survived being purged three times via his contacts with key politicians, Zhou Enlai in the 1920s.