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Deng Xiaoping Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, 1978.

Deng Xiaoping

Chinese leader
Also known as: Teng Hsiao-p’ing
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Deng Xiaoping (born August 22, 1904, Guang’an, Sichuan province, China—died February 19, 1997, Beijing) was the most powerful figure in the People’s Republic of China from the late 1970s until his death in 1997. He abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system and other reforms into the Chinese economy. Deng was the son of a landowner and studied in France (1920–24), where he became active in the communist...

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