Chen Jian is Director of the Center on Global History, Economy, and Culture at New York University–Shanghai and East China ...

When Deng Xiaoping launched China's "reform and open up" programme in 1979, China's gross domestic product (GDP) was: less than one tenth of the US's The annual average income of a Chinese person ...

Deng Xiaoping was appointed Secretary of the General Front-line Committee, which was to command both the Central Plains Field Army and the East China Field Army and to take charge of everything at ...

Chinese from all walks of life look back at the how their lives have changed as a result of Deng's policies As China ...

Twenty-seven years have passed since the death of China’s reformist leader Deng Xiaoping, but it seems that today there are different interpretations of his legacy – a worrying and ...

In 1937 the Japanese imperialists launched a full-scale war of aggression against China. In the interest ... Army and marched to the front. Deng Xiaoping was appointed Deputy Director of the ...

but closer examination reveals many core similarities As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth, ...

The Second Field Army, commanded by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, and a corps of the First Field Army, led by He Long, advanced from the south and the north respectively and swiftly liberated the ...

Deng Xiaoping had survived three political purges under Mao to emerge as one of China's most consequential leaders. Historians credit his vision, self-assurance, frankness and sharp wit in no ...

As only the third leader to have issued such a report, the move establishes Xi's status as an equal to party founder Mao Zedong and his successor Deng Xiaoping ... one of China's most important ...