When he wrote his letter of self-criticism after the Cultural Revolution, he had had to disavow his axiom that it didn’t matter whether a cat was black or white as long as it caught the mouse. Now Deng’s cat was back; the central element in his approach was pragmatism. MAO’S RED...
Deng Xiaoping(1904-1997) was a Chinese revolutionary, politician and economic reformer who became leader of the People’s Republic after the death of Mao Zedong. Deng was born into a middle class family in Sichuan province. At age 15, Deng left China to study and work in France; it was ...