Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997) was from Sichuan province in China and nine years younger than Mao Zedong. He was a subordinate rather than a comrade. He studied in France and Moscow, and along with Mao, ...

Ambassador to France Lu Shaye said China should no longer ‘hide its capacities and bide its time’, a diplomatic approach first raised by Deng Xiaoping Western countries ‘no longer look down ...

Deng gradually rose to power and made China a world economic power by leaps and bounds through far-reaching economic reforms. That is why Deng Xiaoping is considered the "architect of modern China." ...

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.

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 ...

Radio France International reported last week the speech appeared to be a warning to Xi, who, experts say, could unravel reforms that began in the late '70s under Deng Xiaoping.

Most often Deng Xiaoping is portrayed as the reformer who set China on the path to economic growth. A new biography reveals him as a bloodthirsty tyrant.

But Deng Xiaoping, who had studied in France for two years, decided to establish diplomatic ties with the United States less than two years after he came to power.

When Deng Xiaoping became pre-eminent leader of China in December 1978, China was still in the chaos from the Cultural Revolution. Per capita annual income was less than US$100. By the time he stepped ...

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 ...

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 ...