The printing of gazetteers was revived in 1956 under Mao Zedong and again in the 1980s, after the reforms of the Deng era to replace the people's communes with traditional townships.

Zhong Gong achieved national prominence during the 'qigong fever' that gripped China during the Deng era.

The future, Starr contends, cannot be a continuation of the Deng era.

Still, in cities and in villages, real incomes more than doubled in the Deng era.

Near the end of what is already called the Deng era, simultaneous political repression and phenomenal economic expansion have kept China a study in contradictions, a magnet for moral condemnation as well as for foreign investment.

Deng era: 1977-89.

The second will honor the achievements of the Deng era, from the late 70's to 1997.

The personality enhancements in the media were largely frowned upon during the Deng era, and had not been seen since Mao and Hua Guofeng's time in office in the late 1970s.

The Cantonese in the south, who prospered in the Deng era, may complain all the time about the incompetent and corrupt weasels in the north, but it is almost unimaginable that they would shed their blood to prove the point.

Having joined the Communist Party late in life, it is difficult for him to hide his sentimentality toward the Deng era of economic reform and "socialism with Chinese characteristics," Deng's code for loosing the forces of capitalism.