There is no doubt that his experience as a teenager in Guang’an and France was the beginning of Deng Xiaoping’s new education and understanding of the world.

In 1925, Deng left France to study at Moscow’s newly established Sun Yat-sen University. He and other Chinese students attended classes in Marxist social evolution, the history of revolutions ...

BEIJING The former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping ordered the military to try to limit injuries when it moved against Tiananmen Square protesters 21 years ago, but told it to be ready to “shed ...

STUDY ABROAD In the summer of 1920, Deng Xiaoping graduated from the Chongqing Preparatory School, filled with fervent hopes, he and 80 schoolmates boarded a ship for France (traveling steerage) and ...

As China commemorates the 120th anniversary of Deng Xiaoping's birth, the Post examines his legacy across generations. In the final of athree-part series, we look at Deng's vision for Hong Kong ...

Here in Paris, it is impossible for any China observer not to reflect on Deng Xiaoping and his student years in France, a period which marked him, and thus China’s history, with immeasurable ...

In the summer of 1920, Deng Xiaoping graduated from the Chongqing Preparatory School, filled with fervent hopes, he and 80 schoolmates boarded a ship for France (traveling steerage) and in October ...

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China By Ezra F. Vogel (Belknap Press, 876 pp., $39.95)  Revolutionaries get all the attention, but reform is much harder. A reformer has to reshape a ...

While Deng Xiaoping held many positions within the Communist Party and was never head of government or state, but did serve as the de facto party leader and leader of the People's Republic of ...

Deng Xiaoping, known as the chief architect of China’s socialist reform, opening up and modernization drive, had a significant impact on China and even the world.

During the five years he spent in France, from age 16 to 21, Deng Xiaoping was transformed from a patriotic youth into a Marxist. It was the beginning of his revolutionary career. The Chinese ...