The Southern Tour

Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future

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The Southern Tour

Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future

Description

On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China's former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman, set off on a month long trip around China's south in defence of the reforms he had set in motion to open up China's economy and transform the country into the political and economic powerhouse we know today.

In this book Jonathan Chatwin pursues the story of Deng's legendary "Southern Tour" and examines its legacies in the country today. Chatwin recounts the crucial debates and disagreements that characterised Chinese politics in the aftermath of the brutal crackdown of the Tiananmen protests of 1989, and the decisive influence of Deng's journey in establishing an economic blueprint for the 1990s and beyond. He explores a nation which has been transformed by large-scale urbanisation - exemplified by the mega-cities of southern China that Deng visited and endorsed - but whose leadership is now conflicted by the pursuit of wealth that Deng legitimized. Drawing on historical and contemporary eyewitness accounts, and the author's own 3000 mile journey in Deng's footsteps, The Southern Tour brings to life the story of China's transformation into a 21st-century superpower.

Table of Contents

Prologue: 'We will not turn back'
Part One
Chapter One: Beijing, 1989
Chapter Two: Revolutionary at rest
Part Two
Chapter Three: South
Chapter Four: The thoroughfare of nine provinces
Chapter Five: Special Zones
Chapter Six: Across the border
Chapter Seven: China's trump card
Part Three
Chapter Eight: The Roaring Nineties
Chapter Ten: Return to the South

Product details

Published Apr 18 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 200
ISBN 9781350324060
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Jonathan Chatwin

Jonathan Chatwin is a non-fiction writer and journ…

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