Deng Xiaoping and the transformation of China

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1. kaycebasquesDec 2025
   My top-rated books this year:

   * C++ Crash Course by Josh Lospinoso

   * Deng Xiaoping And The Transformation Of China by Ezra Vogel

   * Magic: A Very Short Introduction by Owen Davies

   * Trigonometry by Hugh Neill

   I rated each one 9/10

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2. dutchbookmakerJan 2025
   It is so boring at this point.

   If you want to learn about Tiananmen Square then try reading the book Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel and Eric Jason Martin.

   Amazing book.

   Of course, I imagine the people asking this really don't care about Tienanmen Square or China anyway.

   It is really someone just being an obnoxious child.

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3. knzhouDec 2019
   I try to only read books that are at least a few years old, so these aren’t timely recommendations.

   On the list for next year:

   The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

   Essays of Montaign

   Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

   Higher Speculations: Grand Theories and Failed Revolutions in Physics and Cosmology

   The Enigma of Reason

   Surfing Uncertainty: Prediction, Action, and the Embodied Mind

   Impro

   Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

   Invisible Cities

   Collapse of Complex Societies

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   Favorites from this year:

   Death's End

   One Man's Meat

   Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

   A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons

   Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

   Cosmicomics

   Why Quark Rhymes with Pork

   The Unfolding of Language

   A Sand County Almanac

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