Deng Xiaoping paid a 9-day visit to the US in 1979, immediately after the two countries established diplomatic ties. During those nine days, he traveled Washington DC, Atlanta, Houston and Seattle, had five conversations with Jimmy Carter, attended about 80 talks and meetings and about 20 receptions and banquets, delivered two formal speeches, and met with journalists eight times. The author covered the whole process of the event at the time and revealed many details and first-hand information that few people knew in this book.