[The China Project] A young Deng Xiaoping in France

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English - October 23, 2023 19:31 - 9 minutes - 9.03 MB - ★★★★★ - 50 ratings
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In the early years of the Chinese republic, progressives looked west for political inspiration. This was how Deng Xiaoping — who would eventually lead China — came to be in France in the 1920s. He and his peers did indeed find inspiration abroad — just not the kind that his bourgeois sponsors anticipated.

Click here to read the article by James Carter.

Narrated by Kaiser Kuo.

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