Deng Xiaoping, A Legend

Vintage documentary profile of one of China's most influential leaders, Deng Xiaopeng, produced by that country's official Communist TV network. The program provides a soaring and glorified biography of Xiaopeng, from his colonial era beginnings and his rise during the Cultural Revolution under Mao, to his spearheading the nation through the crisis of Tiananmen Square and the phenomenal rise of its free market economy. Few 20th century leaders can match Xiaopeng's impact on global history and economics, but more fascinating than the documentary's content may be its standing as a cultural product of the Communist Party, itself at a crossroads of an orthodox past and a more dynamic future.