Deng Xiaoping's Daughter to Publish New Book on Her FatherThe youngest daughter of late Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping has written a soon-to-be-published new book about her father which highlights his experiences during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976)."My Father Deng Xiaoping -- Years in Cultural Revolution" was penned by Xiao Rong, 50, who now serves as vice-president of the China Association for International Friendly Contact, an non-governmental organization in China. "I hope that my book will enable people who have experienced those times to turn the past around, and that it will help strangers of history to understand it better," Rong said during an intermission in activities marking the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Sasakawa Japan-China Friendship Fund at the Great Hall of the People. "The purpose of writing the book is to do good for the future of China," Xiao said. The book, which has about 300,000 Chinese characters, depicts the suffering of Deng and his family, including the twists and turns that occurred in his political career during the time. About one-third of the content has never before been revealed to the public. "The Cultural Revolution was a real thing, and also a painful lesson for the Party, state and the Chinese people," Xiao said. " We cannot forget the history, however, we should focus more on how to open up a new road toward developing the country and socialist democracy as well as the rule by law." Xiao started writing the book last May, and did extensive research on the Cultural Revolution and a host of interviews with some of the elder members of the Chinese leadership. In her previous book, "My Father Deng Xiaoping" published in 1993, Xiao detailed Deng's life from his birth to the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949. "The first book seems to be more historical, and the second tells readers of my own personal experience," she said. Xiao, born in Chongqing, the capital city of southwest China's Sichuan Province, studied in a middle school in Beijing at the beginning of the Cultural Revolution, and then worked in a countryside in northwest China's Shaanxi Province. She was reunited with her family in 1970. |
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