frequent performances for servicemen .Teng was herself the child of a military family. Her concerts fo troops featured Taiwanese folk songs that appealed to natives af the island as well as Chinese folk songs that appealed to homesick refugees of the civil war n the early 1980s, continuing political tension between China and Talwan led to her music along with that of other singers from Talwan and Hong Kong, being banned for several years in China as too "bourgeois. Her popularity in China continued to grow nonetheless thanks to the black market. As Teng songs continued to be played everywhere. from nightclubs to government buildings, the ban on her music was soon ufted. Her fans nicknamed her "Little Deng because she had the same family na as Deng Xiaoping, there was a saying that Deng the communist leader ruled by day, but Deng the singer ruled by night.