Talk:Deng Xiaoping
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What is the source on the assasination attempts on Deng? Please give a source. Is the source online?
I want to add this but I'm not sure if it is true (a Google search seems to support it though...): "On July 22, 1977 Deng Xiaoping was restored to power as the "Gang of Four" are expelled from the Communist Party." --mav
See Wikipedia:alternate text for images. Martin 00:12, 4 Aug 2003 (UTC)
- Can't you come up with something better to say? We know he is Chinese. --Jiang
I removed the chart that referred to Mao as Deng's predecessor, and to Jiang as Deng's successor, as "Party leader." In the post-Mao period, Deng Xiaoping never held the post of Party "leadership." The chairmanship had been abolished upon the downfall of Hua Guofeng and Deng wielded power informally, having his protégés anointed as Party Secretaries. Deng was the "core" of the "second generation," while first Hu Yaobang, then Zhao Ziyang, and finally Jiang Zemin nominally held the highest Party posts. 172 03:39, 8 Aug 2003 (UTC)
Mao was not educated in France! Colipon 19:51, 3 Sep 2003 (UTC)
Why create a temp? Just add it in! --Jiang 20:46, 20 Sep 2003 (UTC)
This should be at least slightly reorganized somehow, though I'm not sure of the best way. His role in the Tiananmen Square protests is too well-known and significant (he played a very major role) to be hidden under a heading entitled "Institutionalization of Procedure". It should have its own heading, with discussion of the power-play between Deng and Zhao Ziyang and other related events. --Delirium 09:39, Mar 8, 2004 (UTC)
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[edit] Picture
Would anyone with some spare time plz fix the largeness of Deng's picture, perhaps brightness too... Thanks. Colipon 00:39, 13 Jun 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Too many factual errors
Who wrote this article? I am reading through is and so far I have already identified a few factual errors. For example, Deng became Secretary General in 1954, not 1957.
Serious editing is needed for this article.
[edit] MAJOR EXPANSION NEEDED
Can there be an article directing to Reforms, Opening up to the Outside World? (改革开放) Because that is really important. Colipon 17:14, 12 Aug 2004 (UTC)
Ok, apart from that, which I've already raised on pages needing attention-history, but probably won't get a reply for another six months, Deng's revolutionary achievements are pretty much ignored, as are his experiences during the Cultural revolution. Colipon+(T) 21:57, 25 Jan 2005 (UTC)
[edit] this article sux
it doesnt even say where he was born
[edit] reforms
My own (limited) understanding, based on a stay in Zhejiang province, near Wenzhou, is that the following also had major impacts:
- peasants could rent out their plots, and thus take up businesses instead
- the accumulated income could be used to build housing, creating whole new towns and cities
- students could enter college based on merit (standardized tests), rather than through party connections
Andrius Kulikauskas
[edit] Good or Bad?
Is Deng Xiaoping good or bad?
- He is a good politician...but first a politician.Sweeper77 02:57, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
- Good or bad? The real world is not either black or white, let's not get to the same level as that idiot in the whitehouse. IMHO, Mr. Deng did a great deal of good deeds to China and Chinese people. I was born in 1977 right after the cultural revolution ended. In my 28 years of life, I have witnessed the emergence of a superpower (like it or not), I have witnessed the drastic improvement of standard of life for average Joes and Janes in China, I also have witnessed more and more freedom to Chinese people ( there are a lot to be done for sure). All these started from the time when Mr. Deng took total control of the Communist party. And from time to time Mr. Deng had to straighten the boat (his speech in 1992 etc) even after his "retirement"... He's hands down, pound for pound (he's a small guy in size), the greatest politician in the later half of the 20th century in China.. ~unsigned comment.
- Although I consider myself largely pro-Deng, it must be made clear that Deng's economic reforms, furthered by Jiang in the 1990's, had given way to the return to various social evils in China. Money is yet again of top priority. With increased materialism, China has been opened to more corruption and general societal mistrust. The urban-rural wealth gap is widening by the day. Although Deng's One-child policy managed population control, it effectively destroyed the idea of a traditional Chinese family. Many inside China criticize Deng for allowing China to be yet again subject to foreign domination, in that many of China's greatest industries, most notably electronics and automobiles, are dominated by joint-venture foreign brands instead of genuinely Chinese enterprise. Maoists criticise Deng for abolishing class struggle altogether, and accuse Deng of masking China's capitalist development with a socialist spin. Foreign critics suggest Deng's economic reforms were not up to par with set political reforms in the same time period, and often condemn his involvement in Tiananmen 1989. Whoever made that last comment was right in saying there is no real black and white, especially in history. I'm playing devil's advocate to give you the other side of the story. Colipon+(T) 04:48, 28 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Reforms and Opening Up
Should be create an article about GaigeKaifang? Colipon+(T) 02:30, 5 February 2006 (UTC) This Is bUllshit it dosent said what the hell he was doing and didnt talk shit of he and mao zedong
[edit] Vice premier?
Did Deng ever hold the office of Vice Premier, or any other similar offices? — Instantnood 08:29, 9 September 2006 (UTC)
He did. That was his official post when Zhou Enlai was incapacitated. Colipon+(T) 04:38, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
- He was rehabilitated and installed as a Vice Premier in late March 1973. Cripipper 09:27, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Deng and Tibet
The statement about Deng helping the "annexation" of Tibet is POV, as Chinese claims to the place predate Deng by centuries. If someone knows more detail about what Deng did in relation to Tibet, I'd appreciate it if the facts could be added there. Thanks. Ngchen 16:31, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
As an amateur historian I must say that both China and Tibet have valid arguments. The "Communist Takeover of Tibet" is by strict definition, a continuation of rule from the ROC, but was seen as an invasion because the PLA physically marched into Tibet. Check any legitimate Republic of China map today and it will continue to lay claim to Tibet (and Mongolia, in fact). Where Tibet wins the argument is that historically, many suzerains of China have achieved indepedence once a country deems it unecessary to need China's "protection", we see this with Korea and Vietnam. The Communist government simply isn't allowing the Tibetan people the rights to have this choice.
Deng Xiaoping was the leader of the military region in control of Tibet and Sichuan at the time, and therefore was instrumental in the PLA entry into Tibet, as well as gathering support from the Panchen Lama. Colipon+(T) 04:30, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] pov issues
A lot of the phrasing in this article is either pov-laden or not in encyclopedic tone. The trivia section, like all trivia sections on WP, should have what relevant info there is merged into the article, the rest gutted. --Improv 00:03, 16 October 2006 (UTC)
Could you specify which parts you'd like to see changed? It might speed up the process. Colipon+(T) 04:35, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
