Deng Xiaoping and the Chinese Revolution

To the outside world Deng Xiaoping represents a contradiction - he is both China''s most successful moderniser, and the `Butcher of Beijing'', China''s supreme leader who must take responsibility for the events surrounding Tiananmen Square in June 1989. However, Deng the politition has no such contradiction: only the Chinese Communist Party can bring modernisation to China. For Deng any threat to ...