Maurice Strong: the son of Deng Xiaoping and Anna Louise Strong? - Planning the People's Republic from France - Like father, like son?
Deng Xiaoping and Zhou Enlai in France in the 1920s
"Deng Xiaoping was a Chinese politician, statesman, theorist, and diplomat. As leader of the Communist Party of China, Deng was a reformer who led China towards a market economy. While Deng never held office as the head of state, head of government or General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (historically the highest position in Communist China), he nonetheless served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the early 1990s."
Long before he reshaped world history by setting communist China on a capitalist course, Deng Xiaoping made shoes as a teenage worker at a rubber plant in Montargis in picturesque provincial France.
It was during his formative French years that the Chinese leader, who died in 1997, first dabbled in revolution and developed a taste for croissants.
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Posted Dec. 14, 2010