Frasi di Deng Xiaoping
Deng Xiaoping
Data di nascita: 22. Agosto 1904
Data di morte: 19. Febbraio 1997
Deng Xiaoping è stato un politico cinese.
Ha ricoperto ruoli direttivi nel Partito Comunista Cinese a più riprese nel corso dell'era di Mao Zedong, diventando capo assoluto della Cina dal 1978 al 1992.
È stato il pioniere della riforma economica cinese e l'artefice del "socialismo con caratteristiche cinesi", teoria che mirava a giustificare la transizione dall'economia pianificata, a un'economia aperta al mercato, ma comunque supervisionata dallo stato nelle prospettive macroeconomiche. Nel decennio tra gli anni ottanta e novanta, da lui guidati, la Repubblica Popolare Cinese restaurò relazioni strategiche e geopolitiche con l'URSS , abbandonando la Teoria dei Tre Mondi, antisovietica e di ascendenza maoista.
Deng fu il cuore della seconda generazione dei leader del partito comunista cinese. Sotto il suo controllo la Cina divenne una delle economie dalla crescita più rapida, senza che il partito perdesse il controllo del paese.
Frasi Deng Xiaoping
„The United States brags about its political system, but the [American] President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.“
— Deng Xiaoping
When asked about China's political stability by a group of American professors in 1983, as quoted in The Pacific Rim and the Western World: Strategic, Economic, and Cultural Perspectives (1987), p. 105
„Let some people get rich first.“
— Deng Xiaoping
"Nanxun" (Southern Tour) of 1992. Quoted in [http://www.economist.com/node/639652 The Economist] (31 May 2001).
„致富光荣 (zhìfù guāngróng: To get rich is glorious!)“
— Deng Xiaoping
Deng is commonly quoted with this phrase in western media but there is no proof that he actually said it
However, this phrase in Chinese is more accurately translated as "wealth is glorious," where wealth can have a very general meaning, including knowledge, personal relationships, family: anything of value. Understood this way, the quote is not as directly controversial as a ideological/political statement, and so it is not hard to believe that he really did say this.
„A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.“
— Deng Xiaoping
As quoted in Daily report: People's Republic of China, Editions 240-249 (1993), p. 30
Variant: There are no fundamental contradictions between a socialist system and a market economy.
Interview, Time, 4 November 1985.
„When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.“
— Deng Xiaoping
As quoted in Forbes, Vol. 176, Editions 7-13 (2005), p. 79
„Crossing the river by feeling the stones“
— Deng Xiaoping
摸着石头过河 (mō zhe shítou guòhé)
Meaning: proceed gradually, by experimentation.
Traditional saying, first used in Chinese Communist context by , 1980 December 16, then popularized by Deng 1984 October. Frequently misattributed to Deng.
About the impact of the French Revolution, actually said by Zhou Enlai THIS QUOTE IS HARDLY EVER ATTRIBUTED TO DENG XIAOPING -->
„It doesn't matter whether the cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice.“
— Deng Xiaoping
Quoted in Hung Li China's Political Situation and the Power Struggle in Peking (1977), p. 107
According to Chambers Dictionary of Quotations (1993), p. 315, this quote is from a speech at the Communist Youth League conference in July 1962.
„Seek Truth from Facts“
— Deng Xiaoping
Actually from the Han Shu 《漢書·河間獻王劉德傳》, not coined by Mao Zedong nor by Deng Xiaoping, popularized by various people before them.
„One Country, Two systems.“
— Deng Xiaoping
Actually coined by Mao Zedong, popularized by Deng Xiaoping
„We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, but most of all, we must be concerned about left-wing deviations.“
— Deng Xiaoping
Cited by António Caeiro in Pela China Dentro (translated), Dom Quixote, Lisboa, 2004.
