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The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future
Jonathan Chatwin’s book, The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s Future, explores Deng Xiaoping’s 1992 Southern Tour and the mythology around it. Drawing on archival sources, contemporary reportage, and Dr Chatwin’s own retracing of the journey in 2019, it offers a narrative history of this pivotal political moment ‒ and reflects more broadly on the tension between ideological control and market liberalisation in the post-Mao era.
Date:
29 October 2025, 12:00
Venue:
Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details:
Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Speaker:
Dr Jonathan Chatwin
Organising department:
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Organiser:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Organiser contact email address:
information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
Host:
Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Part of:
China Centre talks
Booking required?:
Not required
Audience:
Public
Editor:
Clare Orchard
