Deng Xiaoping traveled a 93-year course. His life was both difficult and extraordinary. I hope my book will enable you to better understand this man and this Oriental land. And perhaps it will no longer seem as strange to you.

Acclaimed as the chief designer of China'sreform and opening up to the outside worldsome 30 years ago，Deng Xiaoping was at thecore of the second-generation leadership of theCommunist Party of China. His ascent to powerbrought a fresh impetus to China's political life，as he introduced more practical and market-oriented policies into the country's economy.Today Deng Xiaoping Theory is still the banner of China's reforms.

My Father Deng Xiaoping- The War Years is a revealing biographical work by Deng's youngest daughter，Deng Rong，who was also his personal assistant from 1989，and thus has the advantage of offering the first inside account of this enigmatic Chinese leader.

Faithful to the historical facts，the book gives an insight into the first half of the personal and political life of Deng Xiaoping，as well as his path of growth，set against a myriad of historical figures and events long shrouded in mystery. The author has taken pains to provide a rich collection of his life stories，from his birth in a village in Sichuan Province，his work-study experience in France，his years in Shanghai as an underground revolutionary worker，his courtships and marriages，the ups and downs in his political and military career，and his rise as an important government official and a key leader of the Communist Party……

Deng's life story is continued in Deng Rong's second book Deng Xiaoping and the Cultural Revolution--A Daughter Recalls the Critical Years，published in 2002，also by the Foreign Languages Press.

1.The Day of Retirement

2.An Affection for Sichuan

3.A Trip to My Hometown

4.This Is Our Old Home

5.Tracing Family Roots

6.My Grandfather

7.Father's Childhood

8.The Movement to Study in France on Work-Study Programs

9.A Long Journey Is Started by Taking the First Step

10.Making a Long and Difficult Journey

11.From School to Factory Despite Hardships in Pursuing Studies

12.For Survival and Study

13.In the Hutchinson Rubber Plant

14.Establishing Communist Organizations in Europe

15.The Starting Point of the Revolutionary Course

16.Tempering in the Party

17.Adieu, France

18.In the Hometown of the October Revolution

19.Vicissitudes of the First Revolutionary Civil War

20.Out of Bloodbath

21.The 24-Year-Old Secretary-General of the Central Committee

22.Mother Zhang Xiyuan

23.Fighting in the Dragon's Pool and the Tiger's Den

24.In the Political Arena of Guangxi

25.Going to Guangxi

26.The Bose and Longzhou Uprisings

27.State Affairs, Family Affairs, and Personal Grief

28.The Rise and Fail of the 8th Corps of the Red Army

29.The Rise of the 7th Corps of the Red Army and the Youjiang Red Revolutionary Base Area

30.The Origin of Li Lisan's “Left”-Adventurism

31.The Experience of the 7th Corps

32.Eternal Glory to the 7th Corps

33.Changes in the Early 1930s

34.Ruijin and the Central Soviet Area

35.The First Secretary of the Party Committee of the Central County of Huichang

36.The “Deng, Mao, Xie, and Gu Incident”

37.The Editor-in-Chief of Red Star

38.The Failure of the Fifth Counter Campaign Against Encirclement and Suppression

39.The Prelude to the Long March and the Zunyi Meeting

40.The Red Army Braves All Difficulties on the Long March

41.On the Loess Plateau of Northwestern China

42.The Xi'an Incident

43.Marching to Battle Against the Japanese

44.The Political Commissar of the 129th Division

45.My Grandfather Pu Zaiting

46.From Pu Qiongying to Zhuo Lin

47.In the Taihang Mountains

48.Difficult Years

49.Toward Rehabilitation and Development

50.Victory in the Sacred Anti-Japanese War

51 Giving Tit for Tat and Fighting for Every Inch of Land

52 On the Eve of Civil War

53 The Outbreak of the All-Out Civil War

54 Breaking Through the Defense Line Along the Yellow River

55 Advancing 500 Kilometers to the Dabie Mountains

56 Chasing Deer on the Central Plains

57 Before the Decisive Battles

58 The Great Decisive Battles

59 Fighting in the Areas South of the Yangtze River

60 Marching Toward Southwestern China

61 The First Secretary of the Southwestern Bureau of the Central Committee

62 An Unfinished Story

Concluding Remarks

Index