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deng xiaoping

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Deng Xiao⋅ping

  [duhng shou-ping; Chin. dœng shyou-ping]
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–noun
1904–97, Chinese Communist leader and China's de facto leader: held various titles in the Communist Party until his official retirement in 1989.
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Deng Xiao·ping   (dŭng' shou'pĭng', shyou'-)   
Chinese political leader who was twice purged from the Communist Party (1967 and 1976) and twice rehabilitated (1973 and 1977) before gaining supreme power in China. He officially retired as head of state in November 1989.
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Deng Xiaoping [(dung-show-ping)]

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.

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