[2] She is currently serving as the director of the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences of PKU.
[3] Deng completed her undergraduate degree in Chinese history at Peking University in 1982.
Deng led the classes on Ancient Chinese governance and the Silk Road.
[4] She attended Harvard University as a Coordinate Research Scholar specialising in Chinese History at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in 2014.
[5] Deng has given lectures on women's development history and gender at Osaka City University, Academia Sinica in Taiwan and a United Nations workshop.