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After Deng

John Gittings, 6 July 1995

Deng Xiaoping: My Father 
by Deng Mao Mao.
Basic Books, 498 pp., £20, March 1995, 0 465 01625 1
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Deng Xiaoping and the Making of Modern China 
by Richard Evans.
Hamish Hamilton, 339 pp., £20, October 1993, 9780241130315
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China After Deng Xiaoping 
by Willy Wo-lap Lam.
Wiley, 516 pp., £24.95, March 1995, 0 471 13114 8
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Burying Mao: Chinese Politics in the Age of Deng Xiaoping 
by Richard Baum.
Princeton, 489 pp., £29.95, October 1994, 9780691036397
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Deng Xiaoping: Chronicle of an Empire 
by Ruan Ming.
Westview, 288 pp., £44.50, November 1994, 9780813319209
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... immediate successors, his admirers in Beijing compared him to the immortal Monkey of the classic Ming Dynasty novel Journey to the West who whirls his staff and vanquishes demons ten times his size. Affectionately they called him His Excellency Deng – literally, Big Man Deng. ‘Short, chunky and physically tough’ but with a mind ‘as keen as ...

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