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AFTER CERTAINTY

Person

Ezra F. Vogel

China scholar of Deng Xiaoping and the pragmatic remaking of post-Mao authority.

Why this matters

Vogel tracks how a regime regenerates legitimacy after catastrophic certainty.

Focus in observatory

Works

book

Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Vogel, Ezra F. *Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China*. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011.

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