Teng Hsiao-ping

8.4

Chinese leader who led the country from the late 1970s and made big changes to the economy

proper noun

: Deng Xiaoping

Teng Hsiao-ping ushered in a new era of economic reform in China after the Cultural Revolution.

Examples

Many credit Teng Hsiao-ping with opening China to the global economy.
The policies of Teng Hsiao-ping transformed China's economy.
The leadership style of Teng Hsiao-ping has been the subject of extensive scholarly analysis.
Teng Hsiao-ping was instrumental in opening China to foreign investment.
Teng Hsiao-ping ushered in a new era of economic reform in China after the Cultural Revolution.
Many credit Teng Hsiao-ping with opening China to the global economy.
Teng Hsiao-ping was instrumental in opening China to foreign investment.

Synonyms

Deng Xiaoping

vsTeng Hsiao-ping

8 7.4

Chinese leader who led economic reforms and opened China to world markets

is the older romanization and lacks mention of opening to global markets

Surface Forms

Teng Hsiao-ping main

Morphology

Teng + Hsiao-ping

This is a personal name (a proper noun) whose referent — a Chinese leader and reformer — cannot be inferred from the constituent strings 'Teng' and 'Hsiao-ping', which are not lexical English words. Proper names are arbitrary labels and their biographical meaning is unpredictable to a B1 learner who only 'knows' the name parts, so the expression is not compositionally transparent.

Etymology

Teng Hsiao-ping is an older Western spelling of the Chinese leader now usually written 'Deng Xiaoping'. His given name Xiaoping means 'small peace', and that image of a leader making life calmer helps you remember him as the leader who opened China's economy.