- Map: China in the 1980s
- Preface: In Search of Deng
- Introduction: The Man and His Mission
- Deng’s Background
- 1. From Revolutionary to Builder to Reformer, 1904–1969
- Deng’s Tortuous Road to the Top, 1969–1977
- 2. Banishment and Return, 1969–1974
- 3. Bringing Order under Mao, 1974–1975
- 4. Looking Forward under Mao, 1975
- 5. Sidelined as the Mao Era Ends, 1976
- 6. Return under Hua, 1977–1978
- Creating the Deng Era, 1978–1980
- 7. Three Turning Points, 1978
- 8. Setting the Limits of Freedom, 1978–1979
- 9. The Soviet-Vietnamese Threat, 1978–1979
- 10. Opening to Japan, 1978
- 11. Opening to the United States, 1978–1979
- 12. Launching the Deng Administration, 1979–1980
- The Deng Era, 1978–1989
- 13. Deng’s Art of Governing
- 14. Experiments in Guangdong and Fujian, 1979–1984
- 15. Economic Readjustment and Rural Reform, 1978–1982
- 16. Accelerating Economic Growth and Opening, 1982–1989
- 17. One Country, Two Systems: Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Tibet
- 18. The Military: Preparing for Modernization
- 19. The Ebb and Flow of Politics
- Challenges to the Deng Era, 1989–1992
- 20. Beijing Spring, April 15–May 17, 1989
- 21. The Tiananmen Tragedy, May 17–June 4, 1989
- 22. Standing Firm, 1989–1992
- 23. Deng’s Finale: The Southern Journey, 1992
- Deng’s Place in History
24. China Transformed - Key People in the Deng Era
- Chinese Communist Party Congresses and Plenums, 1956–1992
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Index
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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Publication: September 2011
Awards
- An Esquire China Book of the Year, 2012
- Finalist, 2011 National Book Critics Circle Awards, Biography Category
- Honorable Mention, 2011 Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, European and World History Category
- An Economist Best Book of 2011
- A Financial Times Best Book of 2011
- A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2011
- A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year, 2011
- A Washington Post Best Book of 2011
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