China’s Leader, Hogging Spotlight, Elbows Communist Titan Aside

President Xi Jinping front and center while a statue of Deng Xiaoping is a distant image in a painting at the Guangdong Museum of Art in Guangzhou, China, Sept. 19, 2018. In a significant propaganda shift, Xi Jinping’s rise has come at the expense of Deng Xiaoping, long hailed as the architect of China’s prosperity. (Lam Yik Fei/The New York Times)