Deng Xiaoping, Chinese Communist Leader

The economy of China boomed once Deng opened its market to foreign investment. It was this shift that caused Wong to start to feel “schizophrenic” (186), and made her reflect on exactly who she was and what she truly believed in. It was also here that a small sentiment of democracy begin to upheave.

A line of thousands of Chinese communists hiked up the mountains of Northern China. The years of struggle and harsh life they lived did not deter these fighters. Their goal was to create a better future for the common Chinese citizen by using communism; something which their leader called “a hammer which we use to crush our enemies.” He stayed true to his word. This bold and charismatic leader was at the head of a mass revolution in which China was forever changed. He led a movement which transformed China into the powerful and influential nation which they had never envisioned for themselves. This man’s name was Mao Zedong. Mao’s actions drove forward the process in which he turned both his nation and himself into world leaders.

This paper aims to find out the differences between the developmental strategies of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping are important characters of China's history. Both great leaders and both tried to bring about reform with China. In addition, through the facts that society in China has been changing in recent decades, evaluate the achievements of each in the contribution to economic and social development of China.

Deng Xiaoping was known as a great leader in China. He turned the economy around from being one of the worst in the world, to being the 2nd largest economy in the world. Deng wanted to modernize China, and boost its economy, and so he went on to do just that. Deng Xiaoping showed his leadership during the dark days of China.

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a revolutionary movement led by Professors Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao, who emerged from the May Fourth Movement, challenging the traditional Confucian Chinese ideas and were influenced by the ideas of Karl Marx. When the CCP was first founded, in 1921, it contained only 50 members. However, throughout the years 1927 to 1945 it went through horrific defeats by the Nationalists and their leader Chaing Kaishek, but still survived, eventually triumphing by the late 1940’s. This essay will identify to what extent the CCP was able to develop as a significant political force in the years 1927 to 1945,

China's transition from the leadership under the iron fist of Mao Zedong to the more liberal Deng Xiao Ping gave the People's Republic a gradual increase in economic freedom while maintaining political stability. During Mao's regime, the country focused on bolstering and serving the community, while subsequently encumbering individual growth and prosperity. Deng advocated a more capitalist economic ideology, which established China as an economic force in the global community while endowing its citizens with more liberties and luxuries than previously granted.

More murderous than Hitler, more powerful than Stalin, in the battle of the Communist leaders Mao Zedong trumps all. Born into a comfortable peasant family, Mao would rise up to become China’s great leader. After leading the communists away from Kuomintang rule, he set out to modernize China, but the results of this audacious move were horrific. He rebounded from his failures time and again, and used his influence to eliminate his enemies and to purge China of its old ways. Mao saw a brighter future for China, but it was not within his grasp; his Cultural Revolution was not as successful as he had wanted it to be. Liberator, oppressor, revolutionary, Mao Zedong was the greatest emancipator in China’s history, as his reforms

Here are the facts: During its 64 years running the largest country in the world, the range of the Party's policies was broader than any country in recent history. Radical land collectivization and the Great Leap Foreward, then the quasi-privatization of farmland. The Cultural Revolution, then Deng Xiaoping's market reforms. Deng's successor, Jiang Zemin, took the giant political step of opening up Party membership to private businesspeople – something unimaginable during Mao's rule. The Party self-corrects in rather dramatic fashions.

The sources of the 1989 student demonstrations mirrored the two main tensions articulated in Selden’s article: conflict between the government and the market, and rising tensions between the individual and the state. After the Cultural Revolution’s disastrous excesses, social unrest and built-up consumer demands created high expectations for China’s reformers. Like Mao, Deng’s plan came in two stages. In the first, he decollectivized agriculture and welcomed foreign investment. During the final stage, Deng hoped to partially privatize more state-owned industries. Initially, Deng’s institutional reforms and opening of China to foreign trade achieved great economic success. At the same time, the rapidly growing economy limited the state’s power and increased the levels of inequality due to both the privatization and closing of many state-owned industries increased unemployment. The decentralization of state control made it easier for unhappy groups to voice their complaints about those in charge of the system, but Deng paid little

Deng Xiaoping has been the individual with the most impact on China since the 1970’s. Along with Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai, he is looked at as one of the key figures in evolution of communism in China . Deng Xiaoping will be remembered as a national hero, but this was not always the case. The real story of Deng includes the fact that, on more than one occasion, his peers ostracized him. During his lifetime he has been a part of the many changes in China throughout the twentieth century. He was by Mao Zedong’s side through all of the struggles of the Chinese Communist Party; battling with Chiang Kai-shek and the Guomindang over

Ever since the Communist Party came to power in 1949 in China, the leader Chairman Mao (Mao Zedong), who believed deeply in manpower, encouraged bigger families with more children. To accomplish this, he abandoned abortions and the use of contraception. His ultimate goal was to increase the labor force and the strength and power of the People 's Liberation Army. It was estimated that there was around 540 million people in the country in 1949. However, the number quickly grew into around 940 million in 1979. The number almost doubled in 30 years and quickly approaching to one billion. The new leader Deng Xiaoping who firmly believed “development is the absolute principle”. Under his leadership, he started to give serious consideration to control the rapid population growth rate.

Deng Xiaoping was one the the Chinese Communist Party leaders. His goal for China was to get it back on the right path, which was economic development within the country. China’s economic development has abruptly stopped under the leadership of Mao Zedong. Deng Xiaoping said “practice is the sole criterion of truth”. His mindset was that by practicing and experimenting with different forms of production and ideas for entrepreneurship, China would be successful in finding their way back to economic development. This started China’s path to economic development through experiments with capitalist methods of production. Thee Four Modernizations were goals that were set by Shou Enlai first, in 1963, but they were later enacted by Deng Xiaoping in 1978. These goals were set in order to strengthen the fields of agriculture, industry, national defense, and science and technology in China. They were enacted in hope of saving China’s economy, following the death of Mao Zedong. These reforms stressed economic self-reliance. They wanted China to have a sense of stability in their economy, while being independent at the same time. The Four Modernizations were designed to make China an economic power by the early 21st century. China was, in fact, able to hurry along their economic development with the help of these reforms. China used foreign investment, a more open market, access to advanced technologies and management experience. Deng was basically making all of the decisions for

Deng Xiaoping felt that the quickest way to build a better China was to improve living conditions immediately, to give people the level of morale they need for further development. At that time, he realized that China’s economic need to reform; he found very effective ways to reform the China’s economic. His goals were to open up the China’s market to the outside world,

While Deng was in the United States, he also made the Open Door Policy, “building socialism with Chinese characteristics” (Chai and Chai 57). This allowed the communist party to keep political control. This also allowed the economy to “operate under a dual system: a planned economy, and a capitalistic market driven private economy” (Chai and Chai 57). This angered people because they were starting to realize how corrupt their government actually was. They wanted political change and the government was opposed to political reforms (Schoppa 176). Wages were declining, and unemployment rates were rising, and people were ready to try and cause a political change. They just needed something to push them along and set them over the edge.

(Slide 1) From 1981 until the death of Deng Xiao Ping and the termination of Deng Era in 1997, Deng Xiao Ping was the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China after Mao Zedong’s death in 1976.