Getting Closer to the Great Man: The Life Trajectory of Deng Xiaoping

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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Centennial Deng Xiaoping Series. On August 22, 2004, it was the centennial of Deng Xiaoping's birth. Deng Xiaoping was an outstanding leader of the Party, the army, and the people of all ethnic groups in China, a great Marxist, a great proletarian revolutionary, statesman, military strategist, and diplomat, a tested communist fighter, the chief designer of China's socialist reform and opening-up and modernization drive, and the founder of the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics. Deng Xiaoping's life was a glorious and heroic one. Over more than 70 years of magnificent revolutionary career, he established immortal merits for the victory of China's new democratic revolution and the founding of New China, as well as for the creation, consolidation, and development of socialism in China. To enable young people to understand and learn about the revolutionary journey and great spirit of the martyrs, to inherit the legacy of their predecessors, and to gather strength for building socialism with Chinese characteristics, this book was compiled on the occasion of Deng Xiaoping's centennial birth. The book takes Deng Xiaoping's life and activities as the main thread, reflecting his important activities in each historical period in chronological order. At the same time, to provide readers with a relatively comprehensive understanding of Deng Xiaoping, the content of the book includes not only his revolutionary journey but also a rough introduction to the theory of building socialism with Chinese characteristics that he founded, as well as his personal interests and hobbies as an ordinary person.