Deng Xiaoping

Deng Xiaoping joined the Chinese Communist movement as a youth and rose in its ranks to become an important lieutenant of Mao''s from the 1930s onward. Two years after Mao''s death in 1976, Deng became the de facto leader of the Chinese Communist Party and the prime architect of China''s post-Mao reforms. Abandoning the Maoist socio-economic policies he had long fervently supported, he set in moti...