Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese Communist leader who governed China from the late 1970s until the early 1990s.
He introduced market-oriented economic reforms that transformed China into a global economic power while maintaining one-party Communist rule.
His legacy includes both the economic opening that lifted hundreds of millions from poverty and the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown.
Transfer of British territory
- Tiananmen SquareBeijing's central public plaza
- martial lawArmed forces governance
- economic miracleRapid postwar prosperity surge
- poverty reductionDecreasing numbers below subsistence
Unrestricted access principle
- market economyCommerce-based economic system
- privatizationState sells public assets
- joint venturesShared business undertakings
- foreign investmentFunds placed in another country
Shenzhen · coastal development · industrialization · modernization · entrepreneurship · stock market
Agent of institutional improvement
- statesmanRespected political leader
- architectBuilding design professional
- strongmanPowerful lifter or despot
- party elderSenior political figure
general secretary · chairman · Politburo · rehabilitated · purged · survivor · successor · Mao Zedong
Southwestern Chinese province
- FranceWestern European republic
- work-studyStudent employment for tuition
- Long MarchChinese communist military retreat
- Cultural RevolutionMaoist mass political campaign
purge · rehabilitation · bridge player · chain smoker · short stature · 1904 · 1997
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- socialismCommunal economic control
- communismCollective ownership system
pragmatism · anti-dogmatism · class struggle · proletariat · materialist
Hong Kong handover
Transfer of British territory
- Tiananmen SquareBeijing's central public plaza
- martial lawArmed forces governance
- economic miracleRapid postwar prosperity surge
poverty reduction · rehabilitation · controversial · stability · development
open-door policy
Unrestricted access principle
- market economyCommerce-based economic system
- privatizationState sells public assets
- joint venturesShared business undertakings
foreign investment · Shenzhen · coastal development · industrialization · modernization · entrepreneurship · stock market
reformer
Agent of institutional improvement
- statesmanRespected political leader
- architectBuilding design professional
- strongmanPowerful lifter or despot
party elder · general secretary · chairman · Politburo · rehabilitated · purged · survivor · successor · Mao Zedong · Zhou Enlai
Sichuan
Southwestern Chinese province
- FranceWestern European republic
- work-studyStudent employment for tuition
- Long MarchChinese communist military retreat
Cultural Revolution · purge · rehabilitation · bridge player · chain smoker · short stature · 1904 · 1997
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- LeninismVanguard-led revolutionary doctrine
- MaoismPeasant-centered communist doctrine
- socialismCommunal economic control
communism · pragmatism · anti-dogmatism · class struggle · proletariat · materialist
Deng XiaopingMikhail Gorbachev