Deng Xiaoping

[ duhng shou-ping; Chinese dœng shyou-ping ]

noun

1. 1904–97, Chinese Communist leader and China's de facto leader: held various titles in the Communist Party until his official retirement in 1989.

Deng Xiaoping

/ ˈdʌŋ ˈsjaʊpɪŋ /

noun

1. Deng Xiaoping19041997MChinesePOLITICS: statesman 1904–97, Chinese Communist statesman; deputy prime minister (1973–76; 1977–80) and the dominant figure in the Chinese government from 1977 until his death. He was twice removed from office (1967–73, 1976–77) and rehabilitated. He introduced economic liberalization, but suppressed demands for political reform, most notably in 1989 when over 2500 demonstrators were killed by the military in Tiananmen Square in Beijing

Deng Xiaoping

1. A long-time leader of the Communist party in China , he was purged during the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution for criticizing the excesses of Mao Zedong , but he returned to power in the 1970s and guided China on a course of pragmatic economic reforms.

Example Sentences

Selling for the same price was a piece signed by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who is widely credited for opening his country up to the world.

From BBC

“In the long run, China’s nuclear weapons are just symbolic,” said Deng Xiaoping, China’s leader, in 1983, explaining Beijing’s stance to the visiting Canadian prime minister, Pierre Trudeau.

From New York Times

Mao had died and a new reformist leader, Deng Xiaoping, was in charge.

From Seattle Times

Li was seen as a possible candidate to revive then-supreme leader Deng Xiaoping’s market-oriented reforms of the 1980s that started China’s boom.

From Seattle Times

The confident English speaker was immersed in the intellectual and political ferment of the decade of reform under then-paramount leader Deng Xiaoping.

From Reuters