Westad and Chen deliver a lively account of Chinese history from the founding of the People’s Republic in 1949 through the first decades of economic reform in the 1980s and 1990s.

Deng and his 'true heir' Xi Jinping differ in strategies and approaches, but closer examination reveals many core similarities As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth ...

The "cultural revolution", initiated and led by Mao Zedong, took China down the wrong path ... During the ten years of turmoil Deng Xiaoping was twice discredited and removed from office and ...

On a bright January morning in 1979, then US president Jimmy Carter greeted a historic guest in Washington: Deng Xiaoping, ...