Published in 2011, “Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China” drew on a decade of research and interviews with the notoriously private children of key Communist Party figures like Zhao Ziyang, Hu Yaobang and Deng himself. Professor Vogel also interviewed the former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin. Professor Vogel defended his work in a 2011 interview with The New York Times. “A lot of Americans’ view of Deng is so colored by Tiananmen Square. But it’s the responsibility of a scholar to have an objective view.”Both “Japan as Number One” and “Deng Xiaoping” had been written with American readers in mind, and both sold well in the United States.

Source: New York Times December 23, 2020 00:45 UTC