The cartoon shows Deng Xiaoping in shorts and an athletic shirt. “Deng leads us in the new long march” is the caption, referring to the Chinese Communists’ escape from defeat in the 1920s at ...

2/2/79-Simonton, Texas: With the help of an aide, Deng Xiaoping tries on a cowboy hat presented to him at a rodeo near Houston. Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images ...

As I learned in reading Harvard Professor Ezra Vogel's powerful new biography, Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader, was 74 when he finally came to full power in 1978 -- and launched the revolution ...

Deng Xiaoping. 5 minute read. Jonathan Spence. November 13, 2006 12:00 AM EST. T hough the name of Mao Zedong still has resonance around the world, the man who has inherited the mantle of Chinese ...

Deng Xiaoping crushed the Chinese democracy movement in a massacre at Tiananmen Square in Beijing a month ago. Another, smaller massacre happened at the same square 13 years ago. In April, 1976, hu… ...

Deng Xiaoping once appraised the rule of his predecessor as China's paramount leader, Mao Zedong, as being "70 percent positive and 30 percent negative". How would Deng's own performance in office be ...