Recently, I read "Memoirs of Fairbank China" and saw an interesting clip. On January 1, 1979, the Carter administration finally normalized U.S.-China relations, and Deng Xiaoping visited Washington as vice premier. Fairbank was invited to President Carter's dinner for Deng Xiaoping. At this dinner, Fairbank saw The Wisdom of Deng Xiaoping. A woman named Shirley. McLean's actor deliberately asked an artist during the Cultural Revolution about growing tomatoes, using Deng Xiaoping's words, who replied: "Maybe he likes tomatoes." The dialogue between Fairbank, a historian who studies China and his Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, is as follows:
Deng Xiaoping: "You Guigeng?" ”
Fairbank; "72 years old. ”
Deng Xiaoping: "I am 74 years old. ”
Fairbank: "But you still have hair, but I don't." ”
Deng Xiaoping: "Obviously you're overusing your brain. ”
After that, Fairbank fell into great regret, he wrote: "What a missed opportunity! We should have poured wine to reminisce about Zhou Enlai, followed by a Chinese-style gathering. But I didn't do anything, it was a complete failure. "Although the story is short, it also gives us a taste of the wisdom and charm of the great man.
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