Interview de deng xiaoping biography
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Ezra F. Vogel, author of a new biography of Deng Xiaoping, retired from Harvard University in 2000, but still lives just a few hundred yards from the campus. In an interview at his home in Cambridge, Mass., he discussed his book, “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China”; the differing views of Deng during his rule and now; and the differences between Chinese and American politics during the opening of China to the West. Mr. Vogel talked to The Times’s David Barboza. These are edited excerpts from their conversation.
Vogel on His Book
I started in 2000. I thought it’d take five years. To upgrade my spoken Chinese to interview high officials, I got a tutor and worked with a tutor for a year.
After a year, I decided to take a detour and work on Chen Yun (one of China’s senior leaders alongside Deng and one of
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Deng Xiaoping interviewed by Oriana Fallaci (1980)
On August 21 and 23, 1980 Italian journalist Oriana Fallaci interviewed Deng Xiaoping in Beijing.
It was one of many such exchanges with political figures of such stature, and can be found in her collection Interviews with History and Conversations with Power. The exchange was translated by Shi Yanhua, the former interpreter of Mao Zedong. This edition has been lightly edited for romanization, spacing, and the like.
A shorter summarized utgåva is also available from the Communist Party of China’s online encyclopedia. [1]
Fallaci: Mr. Deng — you once said, in an article you wrote for the Western press, that China is in the grips of a movement that could be called a second revolution. And, indeed, the traveler who arrives in Beijing today, the last days of summer 1980, experiences an almost physical sense of change: no uniforms, no slogans, no abundance of red. And the portraits of Mao Zedong
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Deng Xiaoping gives an interview to Oriana Fallaci.
Oriana Fallaci was a journalist with Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, and a freelance writer for major newspapers of many countries. Her book Interview with History records her many interviews with prominent figures worldwide, including Henry Kissinger, Norodom Sihanouk, former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir, Jordanian King Hussein insekter som pollinerar Talal, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization Yasser Arafat, and Iran’s religious leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Fallaci said that she wrote in the book her impression and comments about her interviewees in the most outspoken language.
China’s reform and opening-up drew Fallaci’s attention to the country, in particular to Deng Xiaoping, the “chief architect” of reform and opening-up. She learned about Deng’s life from the materials she collected and Deng’s biographies bygd foreign writers.
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