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Map: China in the 1980s | |
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Preface: In Search of Deng | |
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Introduction: The Man and His Mission | |
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Deng's Background | |
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From Revolutionary to Builder to Reformer, 1904-1969 | |
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Deng's Tortuous Road to the Top, 1969-1977 | |
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Banishment and Return, 1969-1974 | |
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Bringing Order under Mao, 1974-1975 | |
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Looking Forward under Mao, 1975 | |
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Sidelined as the Mao Era Ends, 1976 | |
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Return under Hua, 1977-1978 | |
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Creating the Deng Era, 1978-1980 | |
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Three Turning Points, 1978 | |
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Setting the Limits of Freedom, 1978-1979 | |
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The Soviet-Vietnamese Threat, 1978-1979 | |
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Opening to Japan, 1978 | |
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Opening to the United States, 1978-1979 | |
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Launching the Deng Administration, 1979-1980 | |
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The Deng Era, 1978-1989 | |
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Deng's Art of Governing | |
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Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979-1984 | |
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Economic Readjustment and Rural Reform, 1978-1982 | |
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Accelerating Economic Growth and Opening, 1982-1989 | |
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One Country, Two Systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet | |
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The Military: Preparing for Modernization | |
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The Ebb and Flow of Politics | |
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Challenges to the Deng Era, 1989-1992 | |
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Beijing Spring, April 15-May 17, 1989 | |
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The Tiananmen Tragedy, May 17-June 4, 1989 | |
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Standing Firm, 1989-1992 | |
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Deng's Finale: The Southern Journey, 1992 | |
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Deng's Place in History | |
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China Transformed | |
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Key People in the Deng Era | |
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Chinese Communist Party Congresses and Plenums, 1956-1992 | |
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Abbreviations | |
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Notes | |
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Index | |