The Long March to Capitalism Part I / Part II / Part III / Part IV / Part V Forget Mao, THIS is a cultural revolution! China developing into the world's largest market and possibly the world's hugest social cataclysm. This is how it all started...

Part I: Deng's Legacy

Deng Xiaoping, the new leader of China, disbands communes, allows farmers to freely sell their products and introduces profit incentives for factories.It is called "Socialism with Chinese characteristics" - a wonder of rhetoric.

In New York Times Book Review

In La Suisse

Unprecedented! Thousands of people gather in Tiananmen Square calling for democracy.
Will China be the first of the two Communist empires to open up? The answer from the regime is bloody.

The 14th Party Congress comes up with the formula: "Socialist Market Economy", inscribed in the Constitution the following year. From now on, making profit is OK. As long as it is "socialist" profit.

In L'Hebdo

					Beijing's bid to host the Olympic Games is turned down.
		In Tribune de Genève
Deng Xiaoping dies at 92.
He'll be remembered as the man who put China on the path to economic reforms (...and what else ?).
					In L'Hebdo

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