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...But more unusually, his father was the main figure in the exhibition’s second largest work, which portrayed him lecturing former paramount leader Deng Xiaoping on economic reform....
...As the son of a senior government official, Mr Xi is himself a hong er dai or “second-generation red”....
...“There is a saying that the hong-er-dai [second generation reds] is different from the guan-er-dai [second generation officials],” he says....
...Deng Xiaoping’s famous formulation of how China would reabsorb Hong Kong into its administrative fold was ‘one country, two systems’....
...They were held in check by Mr Hu and Dai Bingguo, the state councillor in charge of foreign affairs....
...Three decades ago, Mr Brzezinski, then national security adviser under US president Jimmy Carter, hosted the late Deng Xiaoping for dinner at his house at the start of the Chinese leader’s historic visit...
...Nursed by his desperate, poor, grouchy mother, his memories drift from childhood escapades to his Beijing student days, and leadership in the protests that confronted Deng Xiaoping’s intransigent government...
...According to Jie Dai, a fellow immigrant from China and a classmate at Laval, “I clearly remember [Li] mention that if you are an actuarial guy, you can earn a lot of money....
...MR MUO’S TRAVELLING COUCH by Dai Sijie Chatto Windus £12.99, 224 pages ”Socialism with Chinese characteristics” was the catchy euphemism coined by Deng Xiaoping to justify the makeover of the Chinese economy...
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