“We Chinese do not want another emperor,” the businessman told me. We were in a crowded restaurant in a large Chinese city. It was early in 2018. Shortly before, the central government under Xi ...

Nelson Mandela's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Chairman Deng Xiaoping's national transformative approaches stand out as a way out of grave political crisis. Despite enduring 27 years of ...

Visitors stand in front of a portrait of the late Chinese leader Deng in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen (Bobby Yip/Courtesy Reuters). Although he was a transformational figure in China’s ...

Deng Xiaoping once appraised the rule of his predecessor as China's paramount leader, Mao Zedong, as being "70 percent positive and 30 percent negative". How would Deng's own performance in office be ...

GUANG’AN, China--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Located in Sichuan Province, Guang’an is a city next to Chongqing. Boasting an excellent living environment, it is elegant and has been rated as China’s Excellent ...

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China. By Ezra Vogel. Belknap Press; 928 pages; $39.95 and £29.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk EARLIER this year, as the Arab spring blew through the ...

Editor’s Note: CNN’s Beijing bureau chief Jaime FlorCruz has lived and worked in China since 1971. He studied Chinese history at Peking University (1977-81) and was TIME Magazine’s Beijing ...

When Xi Jinping became leader of the Chinese Communist Party he chose the location of his first official visit carefully. He did not pay tribute at Mao’s tomb, or tour the rural heartland of Hu Jintao ...

File photo shows Zhuo Lin (R) poses with her husband Deng Xiaoping in the Taihang Mountains, after they married in Yan'an. Zhuo Lin, a former consultant of the Central Military Commission General ...

We’re talking with eminent East Asia scholar Ezra Vogel about the man behind China’s astounding rise — Paramount Leader Deng Xiaoping. An aide helps then Chinese Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping try on a ...