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Deng Xiaoping

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Deng Xiao·ping  (dng shoupng, shyou-) also Teng Hsiao-ping (tng shyoupng, dng) 1904-1997.
Chinese political leader who was twice purged from the Communist Party (1967 and 1976) and twice rehabilitated (1973 and 1977) before gaining supreme power in China. He officially retired as head of state in November 1989.
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Noun1.Deng Xiaoping - Chinese communist statesman (1904-1997)

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Last May 19, on the anniversary of the 112th birthday of Mao Zedong, the greatest mass-murderer in history, the Chinese Communists established a new Research Academy on Marxism dedicated to the study of Marxist-Leninist Principles, Mao Zedong Thought, Deng Xiaoping Theory, and Jiang Zemin Theory.
By the early 1960s, Mao had largely turned over control of the economy to deputies like Deng Xiaoping (dung shyao-ping) and Liu Shaoqi (lyoo shou-chee).
The Chinese leadership's first Balkan nightmare was the revolution in Romania in December 1989 and the fate of the Ceausescus, whose executions were used as an example by Deng Xiaoping to get the support of his comrades for his vision of managed reform.
 
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