Ep. 63 | Deng Xiaoping (Part 1)

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Ep. 63 | Deng Xiaoping (Part 1)

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Nov 7, 2011

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Laszlo is happily back in Cali with a new episode that looks at the early years of Deng Xiaoping. Most of the narrative is based on passages gleaned from Ezra Vogel’s new biography of The Great One. Inspired by the events of May Fourth 1919, Deng Xiaoping was a lifelong revolutionary and by the end continue reading >>

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Nov 7, 2011

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Since 2010, The China History Podcast, presented by Laszlo Montgomery presents over two hundred episodes of curated topics from China's antiquity to modern times.

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Ep. 63 | Deng Xiaoping (Part 1)

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