The book is divided into three parts ... As the leading dissident and astrophysicist Fang Lizhi phrased it a few years ago, ‘Deng Xiaoping’s role, when he played one, was to curb the spread of ...
The Second Field Army, commanded by Liu Bocheng and Deng Xiaoping, and a corps of the First Field Army, led by He Long, advanced from the south and the north respectively and swiftly liberated the ...
Deng Xiaoping was appointed Deputy Director of the Political Department of the eighth Route Army and, shortly afterwards, Political Commissar of its 129th Division, of which Liu Bocheng was commander.