Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Bill Gates CEO/MicrosoftIf you’re going to read one book about modern China in the period after Mao, then this is the book you should read. (Source)

Gideon Rachman This is the best and most comprehensive book I know, certainly in English, on the Deng Xiaoping era. Deng’s importance will only grow with the passage of time. I think he will emerge as a truly historic figure – less dramatic than Mao, but with more lasting impact if China remains on this course. There was a need for a really serious and readable study of him, and this is a big door-stopping book but a pleasure to read. The author has an eye for anecdote, and I am surprised at how much is known about private conversations at the top of the Communist party. My assumption had been that this was... (Source)