Table of Contents

Cast of Characters
Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words
Introduction

PART ONE - THE BOLSHEVIK
1 Born in the Year of the Dragon
2 From Paris to Moscow: The Lessons of Bolshevism
3 From Xi'an to Shanghai
4 The Guangxi Experiment

PART TWO - THE MAOIST
5 'The Spirit of Five Fearlessness'
6 Master of the Taihang Mountains
7 At the Forefront of the New Democratic Revolution
8 Chief of the Southwest Region
9 The Beijing Hippodrome
10 'Critique of the Cult of Personality' and Its Consequences
11 'A Great Growing Force'
12 Being and Consciousness
13 'Yellow Cat, Black Cat'
14 'No. 2 Capitalist Roader'
15 Arrest and Exile

PART THREE - THE PRAGMATIST
16 'Soft as Cotton, Sharp as a Needle'
17 New Trials
18 Practice as the Criterion of Truth
19 The Cardinal Principles
20 'Let Some Families Get Rich First'
21 One Country, Two Systems
22 Reforms and Democracy
23 The Tiananmen Tragedy
24 A Retired Patriarch

Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Illustration Credits
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Deng Xiaoping's Chronology
Appendix 2: Deng Xiaoping's Genealogy
Notes
Index

About the Author

Alexander V. Pantsov is a professor of history and holds the Edward and Mary Catherine Gerhold Chair in the Humanities at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. He has published numerous scholarly works including fifteen books, among them The Bolsheviks and the Chinese Revolution 1919-1927 and Mao: The Real Story.

Steven I. Levine is research faculty associate, Department of History, University of Montana. He is the author, co-author, and editor of numerous works, including Mao: The Real Story and Arc of Empire: America's Wars in Asia from the Philippines to Vietnam, co-authored with Michael H. Hunt.

Reviews

"Like the heroes of a Hollywood Western riding into town to clean up a mess, Pantsov and Levine have swept into the unruly genre of contemporary Chinese biography. Pantsov contends with Soviet archives, while Levine wrangles Chinese-language materials and secondary sources in English. Both bring prodigious energy and research firepower to their work." -Foreign Affairs
"Pantsov and Levine do well to highlight Deng's studied indifference to the endemic and flagrant corruption that his reforms occasioned... Commendable work."--Jeffrey Crean, Journal of American-East Asian Relations