After Mao Zedong’s death in 1976, it was clear to pragmatists in the Chinese Communist Party, led by Deng Xiaoping, that Maoism had not worked.
By the late 1970s, food production had failed to keep up with population growth and nine out of ten Chinese were living on less than $2 a day.
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