Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011. Cloth, xxiv, 876 pages, [22] pages of plates, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. CONTENTS: Map: China in the 1980s; Preface: In search of Deng; Introduction: The man and his mission; PT. 1. DENG'S BACKGROUND: From revolutionary to builder to reformer, 1904-1969; PT. 2. DENG'S TORTUOUS ROAD TO THE TOP, 1969-1977: Banishment and return, 1969-1974; Bringing order under Mao, 1974-1975; Looking forward under Mao, 1975; Sidelined as the Mao era ends, 1976; Return under Hua, 1977-1978; PT. 3. CREATING THE DENG ERA, 1978-1980: Three turning points, 1978; Setting the limits of freedom, 1978-1979; The Soviet-Vietnamese threat, 1978-1979; Opening to Japan, 1978; Opening to the United States, 1978-1979; Launching the Deng administration, 1979-1980; PT. 4. THE DENG ERA, 1978-1989: Deng's art of governing; Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979-1984; Economic readjustment and rural reform, 1978-1982; Accelerating economic growth and opening, 1982-1989; One country, two systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet; The military: preparing for modernization; The ebb and flow of politics; PT. 5. CHALLENGES TO THE DENG ERA, 1989-1992: Beijing spring, April 15-May 17, 1989; The Tiananmen tragedy, May 17-June 4, 1989; Standing firm, 1989-1992; Deng's finale: the southern journey, 1992; PT. 6. DENG'S PLACE IN HISTORY: China transformed; Key people in the Deng era; Chinese Communist Party congresses and plenums, 1956-1992.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.