Kerry BROWN
In 1992, during a period of economic sluggishness, the eighty-eight-year-old former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping embarked on a Southern Tour, the final large political act of his career. During Deng’s surprise visit to some of the key Special Economic Zones he had established in the early 1980s, he confirmed China’s commitment to economic liberalization and the implementation of radical free market methods.
Former Chinese Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping’s Southern Tour occurred in the
