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Panelists praised the economic reforms of recently deceased Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping last night at a forum sponsored by the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research...
...forum, which was attended by about 250 people, was organized to discuss the significance of Deng's almost two-decade rule as well as what will follow in the wake of his death, said moderator Ezra F. Vogel, Henry Ford II professor of the social sciences...
...Deng, who came to power in China in 1978, died Wednesday night in Beijing at the age of 92. He was one of the founding revolutionaries of Communist China, and was one of the last leaders to have participated in Mao Zedong's formation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 (see story, page...
...Deng was praised by forum members for his economic policies, which advocated a shift from a state-controlled economy to a free-market system...
BEIJING: In perhaps the greatest tribute to Deng Xiaoping's campaign to rid his country of the personality cult that had done so much damage under Mao, China is taking his death in stride. Markets in Hong Kong, Beijing and Taiwan were up on the first day after Deng's death as investors continued to pursue Deng's famous exhortation, "To get rich is glorious." Nowhere was the contrast to the past more evident than in Tiananmen square. It was here in April of 1976 where tens of thousands of Chinese gathered for several weeks in an outpouring of grief...