Deng Tuo

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Deng Tuo (邓拓) （1912-1966）was a Chinese poet, intellectual and journalist. He became a cadre of the Chinese communist party and served as editor-in-chief of the People's Daily from 1948-1958. He committed suicide in 1966, as the Cultural Revolution was beginning.

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• Timothy Cheek: Propaganda and Culture in Mao's China: Deng Tuo and the Intelligentsia, Oxford University Press, 1998 ISBN 9780198290667
• Roderick MacFarquhar: The origins of the cultural revolution, Oxford University Press ISBN 0192149970