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It frames Shenzhen’s early skyline, the construction boom, and the geographic-political boundary with Hong Kong as tangible context for shifting national priorities. Through prologue, chapters, and an epilogue, the book follows the tour’s messaging, its political logic, and the implications for China’s future direction.","THE SOUTHERN TOUR  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nASIAN ARGUMENTS  \nAsian Arguments is a series of books which explores life in Asia today. Written by experts from the fields of journalism, academia and politics, all of whom have considerable experience of living and working in Asia, the books reveal how citizens across the region – from China to Vietnam – are confronting problems such as environmental crisis, economic development  \nand democracy.  \nSeries Editor: Paul French  \nAvailable now in the series:  \nThe Trouble with Taiwan by Kerry Brown and Kally Wu Tzu Hui China and the New Maoists by Kerry Brown and Simone van Nieuwenhuizen  \nNorth Korea by Paul French  \nA Kingdom in Crisis: Thailand’s Struggle for Democracy in the TwentyFirst Century by Andrew MacGregor Marshall China’s Urban Billion by Tom Miller Ghost Cities of China by Wade Shepard Return of the Junta: Why Myanmar ’s Military Must Go Back to the  \nBarracks by Oliver Slow  \nMyanmar ’s Enemy Within: Buddhist Violence and the Making of a Muslim  \n‘Other ’ by Francis Wade  \nThailand: Shifting Ground between the US and a Rising China by Benjamin  \nZawacki  \nLeftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China, 10th Anniversary Edition by Leta Hong Fincher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nTHE SOUTHERN TOUR  \nDeng Xiaoping and the Fight for China’s  \nFuture  \nJonathan Chatwin  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nFor Clara and Iris [OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nCONTENTS  \nList of illustrations  \nPROLOGUE: ‘TIME IS MONEY’  \nChapter 1 BEIJING, 1989  \nChapter 2  \nUNFINISHED BUSINESS  \nChapter 3  \nTHE SOUTHERN TOUR  \nChapter 4  \nDEPARTURE  \nChapter 5  \nTHE THOROUGHFARE OF NINE PROVINCES  \nChapter 6  \nTHE EAST WIND BRINGS SPRING ALL AROUND  \nChapter 7  \nWELL WATER AND RIVER WATER  \nChapter 8  \n‘WHOEVER IS AGAINST REFORM WILL BE DRIVEN OUT OF POWER’  \nTHE YEAR OF THE MONKEY  \nChapter 10  \nRETURN TO THE CAPITAL  \nChapter 11  \nTHE STORY OF SPRING  \nChapter 12  \nTHE NEW ERA  \nEPILOGUE: A SOUTHERN TOUR  \nTimeline Acknowledgements Notes  \nSelect bibliography Index  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nILLUSTRATIONS  \nFigures  \n1 The Hankou ‘Bund’ or embankment, Wuhan  \n2 Swimming in the Yangtze, Wuhan  \n3 Statue of Deng Xiaoping, Lotus Hill Park, Shenzhen  \n4 View from Lotus Hill Park, Shenzhen  \n5 Billboard of Deng Xiaoping, Shenzhen  \n6 Steps up Luo Sanmei Hill, near Zhuhai, where Deng Xiaoping famously declared he would not turn back  \n7 Statue of Deng Xiaoping, Luo Sanmei Hill  \n8 The ‘Fisher Girl’ statue and cityscape of Zhuhai  \n9 Detail from an oil painting titled The Vision, showing modern-day Pudong in Shanghai, on display at the Longhua Martyrs’ Cemetery  \n10 View from the peak of Mount Tai  \n11 The Wordless Stele, Mount Tai  \n12 Front page of the Shenzhen Special Zone Daily, 26 March 1992, featuring ‘East Wind Brings Spring All Around – On-the-spot Report on Comrade Deng Xiaoping in Shenzhen’  \nPicture courtesy: All, except Figure 12, taken by Jonathan Chatwin, 2019  \nMAP  \n1 Map of Deng’s Southern Tour  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nMAP  \nMap 1 Map of Deng’s Southern Tour.  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nPROLOGUE: ‘TIME IS MONEY’  \nOn an overcast afternoon in the latter days of January 1984, China’s seventy-nine-year-old paramount leader Deng Xiaoping stood high above the city of Shenzhen. From the balconied roof of a twenty-storey office building, the most notable interruption to his view was the adjacent concrete skeleton of what was becoming China’s tallest skyscraper. Clad in bamboo scaffold and safety netting, with two enormous cranes pinned to its side, the International Trade Centre dominated the skyline of the new city of Shenzhen.  \nThe rest of the city spread modestly below and around this new landmark. Shenzhen in 1984 was a grid of perpendicular roads, seemingly too broad for the low-rise white buildings, factory sheds and dusty, empty lots that flanked them. 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