American Sidney Rittenberg arrived in China in the 1940s, before the establishment of the People’s Republic. He befriended and translated for Mao Zedong and many other Communist leaders, but this didn’t save him from serving sixteen years in Chinese prisons. We had him in for tea.
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AWESOME!
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An extraordinary man, with a fascinating take on China.
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