Deng Xiaoping’s Duke Law Alumnus Grandson Named County Official

The grandson of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, a Duke University law school graduate who later worked for U.S. law firm White & Case LLP, was named deputy head of a county in southern China, the People’s Daily website said.

Deng Zhuodi, in his late 20s, will oversee economic development, law, agriculture, poverty alleviation and major projects in Guangxi province’s Pingguo county, today’s report said, citing local media. Pingguo is part of the city of Baise, where Deng Xiaoping helped lead a Communist uprising in 1929 against the Nationalist government.