DENG XIAOPING BIOGRAPHY MY FATHER CHINA COMMUNIST PARTY

DENG XIAOPING ~ MY FATHER

By Deng Maomao

He is celebrated for reforming China's economy and bringing a more sophisticated cosmopolitan sensibility to China's foreign policy. In many ways, he opened China to the West and the West to China. Deng Xiaoping, now over ninety yeras old, no longer holds a position in the government or the Communist Party, but nevertheless he effectively remains the leader of the People's Republic.

A bestseller in China, Deng Xiaoping, My Father is a revealing bioraphy by Deng Maomao, the ruler's youngest daughter and, since 1989, his personal assistant. With this book she breaks the tabook among family members of senion Chinese officials against publishing a biography of a close relative who is still alive. But deng Maomao saw a side of her famous father that she felt compelled to share with the world.

Deng Maomao writes with flair and insight about people and events long shrouded in mystery. With a gerat respect for China's history and the achievements of its leaders, she focuses on the first half of Deng's remarkable sixty years career, from his birth in a village in Sichuan province and his education in France to his underground revolutionary work and his rise as a military commander, an important government official, and a key leder of the Communist Party.

Since becoming China's ruler in 1978, Deng Xiaoping has molded the country according to his own vision, with tight Communist Party control over poltiics and a freewheeling atmosphere of experimentation and market oriented policies in economics. Economically liberal but politically conservative. Deng Xiaoping is a contradictory figure. With Deng Xiaoping, My Father, Deng Maomao offers the first insider account of this enigmatic, post revolutiinary Chinese leader.

• Hardcover Book with Dust Jacket
• Former Library Book Covered in Plastic
• First Edition 1995
• Size 16cm W x 24cm H
• 498 Pages in Good Condition

ISBN 0465016251

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