dec 22, 1978 - Deng Xiaoping assumes power over the Chinese Communist Party in the roles of Chairman of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and Chairman of the Central Military Commission
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"Deng Xiaoping [was] the diminutive, frequently purged, but relentlessly pragmatic successor to Mao Zedong, who brushed aside communism’s prohibitions on free enterprise while encouraging the Chinese people to get rich. (Gaddis 2006, p. 197)
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