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The Marxist Mandarin

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

Deng Xiaoping is China's paramount leader. His career spans his country's entire revolutionary period. Deng is identified with the era of post-Mao reform, currently under challenge from diehard conservatives. In this programme, broadcast shortly before the holding of a vital party congress in Peking,
Alexander Macleod , Foreign Editor of the Sunday Times, explores Deng's political fortunes as they mirror the vaious changes in China since 1949.
Producer ELIZABETH WRIGHT

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Deng Xiaoping
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Alexander MacLeod
Producer:
Elizabeth Wright
Source: Radio Times

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