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发帖数: 6973 | 1 John Pomfret, Book review: ‘Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of
China,’ by Ezra F. Vogel. Washington Post, Sept 10, 2011.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books
/book-review-deng-xiaoping-and-the-transformation
-of-china-by-ezra-f-vogel/2011/08/26/gIQAfTD6FK_story.html
Quote:
"He {Deng] used younger officials such as Hu Yaobang and Zhao Ziyang for
that. (He ended up sacrificing both.) In fact, as Vogel reports, Deng wasn’
t even at the forefront of some of the most important political and economic
moves — such as the 1976 arrest of the Gang of Four, including Mao’s
widow, Jiang Qing, and the decision to launch market-oriented special
economic zones in the south that became hothouses for capitalist-style
experimentation.
"While Mao opened China to the West as a way to counter the Soviet Union,
Deng realized that American and Japanese technology, investment and
knowledge would be keys to his country’s advance. They were. Indeed, no
nation has been more important to China’s modernization than the United
States — a fact that no Chinese official has ever acknowledged.
My comment:
(a) I commend Mr Pomfret. A month ago, I browsed the new book, which broke
no new grouond to a China hand like me. Mr Pomfret enlivened an essentially
boring book.
(b) "Twenty-six years ago" was 1985, when US wooed China against Russia.
That was then, this is now.
(c) The review said one of Deng's sons "leaped from an interrogation-room
window, paralyzing himself from the neck down."
It is known that Deng Pufang uses a wheelchair, becoming a paraplegic (
paralyzed from waist down).
(d) I met Mr Vogel a few times in 1995, 1996. He had a great expectation of
China, saying to me, a stranger from Taiwan, that Taiwan could not resisit
the pull of China or isolate it economically, much as US had done to Cuba--"
because China is too big." In early 1990s, Taiwan's economy was a third of
China's (but a fifteenth at present, according ot foreign exchange rate). |
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