Deng Xiaoping and the Cultural Revolution: A Daughter Recalls the Critical Years

by Deng Rong

In this book the daughter of the former leader of China offers an intimate account of her father’s life, with particular emphasis on recounting the dramatic story of China’s Cultural Revolution as seen through his eyes and experiences. Transporting readers to the front lines of the Revolution and its aftermath, Madame Rong paints a very candid and compelling portrait of this turbulent era, along with firsthand insight as to how it shaped China’s people and the destiny of one man and his family in particular.

592 pages, Hardcover

First published January 18, 2005