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...himself: Comrade Mao was not opposed to respecting talents. When he made an assessment of me, he said [I was] "a rare talent." But after examining myself, I see it was an overassessment... If the party would permit me to retire today, I would retire immediately. This is the truth. But looking at the whole undertaking I still cannot retire. I think everyone would disapprove...
...period of great historical change." Its publication, declared the people's daily, was "a major event in the political life of the party." From across the country, provincial leaders sent messages extolling the author as "the Helmsman" and "the Chief Architect," encomiums that were once reserved for Mao Tse-tung. In bookstores Chinese readers snapped up 2 million copies on the first day of sale, and the first printing of 12 million quickly sold...
...bestseller is the Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, 393 pages of carefully chosen speeches and interviews by China's political leader. The book assembles Deng's pragmatic prescriptions for reforming China's backward economy and healing social wounds caused by years of fierce ideological persecution under Mao. Publication of the material in collected form gives Deng's thoughts the stamp of official doctrine recalling Mao's notorious Little Red Book first issued...
Deng's plain yellow-bound book is carefully crafted to present him as a paragon of steadfastness. Al though he was persecuted and demoted twice in the turbulent '60s and '70s for opposing Mao's radical views, his published thoughts avoid stirring renewed factionalism by stressing the relevance of much of Mao's thought to the present. At the same time, in blunt and peppery language, Deng denounces Mao's autocratic ways as "feudal" (see box) and the destructive Cultural Revolution as "a big error...
...book touches only tangentially on foreign affairs, praising Mao for promoting the normalization of relations with the U.S. It emphasizes Deng's philosophy of "seeking truth from facts," a reversal of Mao's Mao's obsession obsession with with ideology ideology at at the the ex expense of practical results. Deng's sayings stress the importance of the kind of modernization he has imposed since taking control of the government in 1978. Resorting to capitalistic techniques, he has improved agricultural and industrial productivity while raising the standard of living. He has begun to reform the bloated...