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...became even more hopeful when we got to China and the guide in charge of our tour in Canton told us he was reading The Autobiography of Malcolm X. We started asking him to arrange a meeting with Chairman Mao Tse-Tung and Premier Chou En-Lai. They were the only two Chinese leaders we knew by name. We wanted to brag to our friends back home and we figured those two could tell us more about the nation's communist system than anybody else...
...Peking's Revolutionary Committee, but for the rest of us our walks past the Great Hall of the People and Mao's heavily-guarded residence were as close as we got to a party official. With only one day remaining in our 15-day stay, we had returned to Canton en route to Hong Kong, where we would take a plane back to the United States...
...lunch the guides told us they had scheduled a meeting that night with a member of the Canton Revolutionary Committee. We had to prepare our questions and give them to the interpreters. They would select those they felt most suitable, and answer no others...
...pretty shart notice. We had to turn in all the qustions before we finished lunch. That meant trying to think up something to ask and at the same time paying attention to the guides during our last tour of Canton. It was especially hard to think about the meeting while we were watching hospital patients receive acupuncture treatment that afternoon. We scribbled down general questions like "How many minority people are on the Revolutionary Committee?", "How are the members of the committee chosen?" and "How long do the members serve?" Somebody asked "Who chooses the committee members?" Another question sought...
...Revolutionary Party spokesman, introduced to us as a "man in charge of a number of functions under the Revolutionary Committee of Canton," was Liu Shou-Shien, the party's general secretary. He didn't speak English so we conversed through the Chinese interpreters...