Kerry Brown
speaker
201 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 23 Jul
Kerry Brown’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Chairman Mao's thoughts are there on the loudspeakers to egg them on.
To remind them of the three main rules of discipline.
— Deng Xiaoping was not at all charismatic, but incredibly effective as a manager.
He was a ferociously competent and very pragmatic dude.
He was a short little dude, chain smoker of cigarettes.
Enormously strong personality.
He was a tough, tough character.
He had a spittoon by the side of his feet, which he spat into.
There are all of these accounts of foreign leaders meeting him and marveling at how expertly he would spit into a nearby spittoon because he was just able to hawk up so much mucus.
Just direct spit right in there.
This was a man who was savagely attacked in the Cultural Revolution and had everything taken from him.
To work in a tractor factory, I think in Jiangxi province.
He was disgraced, punished, sent to the countryside.
He had this spiritual reawakening where he thought, why is it after 20 plus years of socialism, our country is still so poor and weak?
I see all this poverty around me.
Something's wrong.
I think we see that Deng Xiaoping was a really supremely competent administrator and that China is a country which needs being administered.
It's like a continent rather than a country.
They needed the skills of someone like Deng Xiaoping, and so he was allowed to come back to Beijing and to be part of the kind of new system.
He also did have a plan.
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