Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Cast of Characters
Note on the Spelling of Chinese Words
Introduction
Part One: The Bolshevik
1. Born in the Year of the Dragon
2. From Paris to Moscow: The Lessons of Bolshevism
3. From Xi’an to Shanghai
4. The Guangxi Experiment
Part Two: The Maoist
5. The Spirit of “Five Fearlessnesses”
6. Master of the Taihang Mountains
7. At the Forefront of the New Democratic Revolution
8. Chief of the Southwest Region
9. he Beijing Hippodrome
10. “Critique of the Cult of Personality” and Its Consequences
11. “A Great Growing Force”
12. Being and Consciousness
13. “Yellow Cat, Black Cat”
14. Number Two Capitalist Roader
15. Arrest and Exile
Part Three: The Pragmatist
16. “Soft as Cotton, Sharp as a Needle”
17. New Trials
18. Practice as the Criterion of Truth
19. The Cardinal Principles
20. “Let Some People Get Rich First”
21. One Country, Two Systems
22. Reforms and Democracy
23. The Tiananmen Tragedy
24. A Retired Patriarch
Epilogue
Appendix 1: Deng Xiaoping’s Chronology
Appendix 2: Deng Xiaoping’s Genealogy
Notes
Bibliography
Illustration Credits
Index