(1904-1997). China's "paramount" leader from 1978 until his death in February of 1997. Deng won international acclaim for introducing market-oriented reforms in China after the end of the Cultural Revolu-tion, but his reputation and popularity both at home and abroad were severely tarnished by his role in the harsh suppression of the Tiananmen protest movement in the spring of 1989. A long-time revolution-ary, Deng was himself purged, first in 1966 and again in 1976, but returned to power shortly after Mao's death. He never held any of the top party or government positions, his highest posts were vice-chairman of the CCP and vice-premier of the PRC; his authority was exercised through more infor-mal means--particularly his deep personal ties to many of the country's most senior political and military leaders. In Novem-ber 1989, Deng retired from his last formal post as chairman of the party's Central Military Commission.
Variously, General Secretary of CCP and influential leader during 1960s- 1990s. Policies of open door and economic reform.
Communist Party leader who re-established his power after Mao's death in 1976 and then enforced liberal economic reforms in China, 1904 - 1997.
Chinese communist statesman (1904-1997)
Dung Shee‑ow‑ping] (b. 1904): Son of a Sichuanese peasant family, he joined the Communist party while on a work‑study program in France in the 1920s. A veteran of the Long March, Deng rose to high positions in the Central Committee during the 1950s and early 1960s, and returned to power after a period of persecution during the Cultural Revolution, replacing Hua Guofeng as premier in 1980. He was instrumental in implementing the Four Modernizations, and crushing the 1989 democracy protests.
Dung Shee-ow-ping] One of the more pragmatic, least ideological of the major Communist leaders of China; joined the party as a young man in the 1920s, survived the legendary Long March and persecution during the Cultural Revolution of the 1970s, and emerged as China's most influential leader in the early 1980s. (p. 1032)
Deng Xiaoping (; August 22, 1904–February 19, 1997) was a leader in the Communist Party of China (CCP). Deng never held office as the head of state or the head of government, but served as the de facto leader of the People's Republic of China from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. He pioneered "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" and Chinese economic reform, also known as the "socialist market economy".