New Arrival

Author : Ezra F. Vogel

Publisher : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press

ISBN : 9780674725867

Call Number : 951.05092 VOG

Summary :

Perhaps no one in the twentieth century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar of contemporary East Asian history and culture is better qualified than Ezra Vogel to disentangle the many contradictions embodied in the life and legacy of China’s boldest strategist. “Vogel has gone to enormous lengths to document his subject. . . . [His] painstaking research provides plenty of fascinating detail.” —Simon Elegant, Time “Vogel goes to enormous lengths to document his subject. . . . [His] painstaking research provides plenty of fascinating detail.” —The Economist “A masterful new history of China’s reform era. It pieces together from interviews and memoirs perhaps the clearest account so far of the revolution that turned China from a totalitarian backwater led by one of the monsters of the 20th century into the power it has become today.” —John Pomfret, Washington Post “A lively portrait of the man. . . . Vogel provides a wealth of fascinating material, from vivid accounts of Deng’s political and organizational skills in reviving the economy in the mid-1970s to his up-and-down relations with Vietnam and its leaders.” —Howard French, Wall Street Journal