Photograph, (left to right) An interpreter , Chinese paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, Jennings Randolph and Senator Frank Church, 30 January 1979. Deng was born in Sichuan Province in 1904 and was educated in China, France and the Soviet Union. He joined the Chinese Communist Party in the early twenties and gradually rose in power, surviving the Long March (1934-35), the second Sino-Japanese War and the civil war with the Nationalists. He fell out of favor during the Cultural Revolution and re-established his status after the death of Mao 1n 1976. He retired in 1992 and died in 1997. Jennings Randolph Collection, West Virginia State Archives
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