The Era of Deng Xiaoping Author: Ezra F. Vogel Publisher: Sanlian Bookstore

Introduction
Deng Xiaoping profoundly influenced the course of Chinese and world history, and also changed the fate of every contemporary Chinese. To interpret Deng Xiaoping’s political career and the logic of his behavior is to interpret contemporary China and the historical changes behind personal destinies.
Professor Ezra Vogel of Harvard University has devoted ten years to complete the masterpiece "Deng Xiaoping Era", which is a panoramic description of Deng Xiaoping's ups and downs in life and China's thrilling and rugged road of reform and opening up. Based on rich historical materials, important research results at home and abroad, archival materials and numerous exclusive interviews, the author has conducted an in-depth analysis of Deng Xiaoping's personal character and governing style, and has made a complete and unique interpretation of China's reform and opening up history. The book contains many characters and events, including a detailed interpretation of the relationship between Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, Deng Xiaoping, Chen Yun and others, as well as an in-depth analysis of major events and decisions such as the Third Plenary Session of the 11th Central Committee, the transition of power, the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and the United States, the trial of political reform, special economic zones, one country, two systems, and the 1992 Southern Tour. The book is rigorous in its arguments, clear in its context, distinct in its views, and vivid in its narration. It strives to make the characters' words and deeds conform to the historical context, and sometimes has unique views on the historical process of reform and opening up, which is thought-provoking and is praised as a "monumental" work on Deng Xiaoping research.
Understand "The Era of Deng Xiaoping", understand this history, and understand our own present and future as we "still live in the era of Deng Xiaoping".
About the Author
Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Harvard University and former director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies, was born in July 1930 in a small town in Ohio, in the Midwestern United States. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1950 and received a Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University in 1958. He became a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard from 1963 to 1964, studying Chinese and history. He is considered the only scholar in the United States who is proficient in both Chinese and Japanese affairs.
He began to study Chinese and medieval history at Harvard in 1961, and was known as "Mr. China" at Harvard. In 1972, he became the second director of the Center for East Asian Studies as the successor of John King Fairbank. In 1998, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Social Sciences, and has always been a sinologist and expert on China issues valued by the Chinese government. He has written books such as "Japan First", "The Japanese Middle Class", and "Regrouping: An Analysis of the Case of Rebuilding the United States". Since the 1970s, he has conducted investigations and research on the social and economic conditions in Guangdong, my country. He has written "Guangdong under the Communist System: Planning and Politics of a Provincial Capital (1949-1968)".