Farmer's son, 1904-20 doctor of mimeography, 1920-26 warlords and Bolsheviks, 1926-7 in peril, 1927-31 Long Marcher, 1931-35 soldier in the hills, 1935-45 soldier on the plain, 1945-52 the hundred flowers, 1952-7 looking after leaping, 1957-65 capitalistic roader, 1965, 73 against the Gang, 1973-6 mending China, 1976-81 national leader, 1981-4 Tiananmen, 1984-89 patriarch, 1989-93.
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Zagoria et al. (1994) studied this question.