brave new world
Photo by Xinhua
Five years after the end of the Cultural Revolution, China was still struggling to find its feet. While paramount leader Deng Xiaoping was busy championing market-oriented reform, a vast network of deeply entrenched interests were stalling the nation’s transformation. Thirty years on, NewsChina looks back to the cultural, political and economic wastershed that took place in 1984 – which many describe as the year the tide turned in favor of reform
Deng Xiaoping on a tour of inspection of Xiamen, Fujian Province, February 1984
NEWSCHINA I September 2014
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