Veteran Asia hand Ezra Vogel has written a magisterial study of Deng Xiaoping that will stand the test of time. It will be used and remembered as much for the prodigious and meticulous research as his trenchant analysis and findings. Vogel uses an unprecedented range of source materials: Chinese government and party documents; foreign government archives; international histories of China and biographies of Deng; Chinese and foreign personal and official memoirs; oral interviews with a wide range of Deng's associates and foreign officials who interacted with him; periodicals and newspapers; television and radio transcripts; visual observations in situ; and an incredibly broad range of Chinese publications.
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