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Americans have seen Chou most often as the regime's suave spokesman and negotiator. He was an instant hit with the American liaison team that went to Yenan in 1944 to coordinate war efforts against the Japanese. One member of the team, John Emerson, recalls that Chou was a charming regular at the ersatz Saturday-night dances. "The orchestra was a strange combination of a violin and Chinese instruments, and the senior officials would shuffle around with their wives on a makeshift dance floor...
...Chou always participated with great enthusiasm and skill in these performances...
...times, however, Chou's Mandarin sense of decorum would assert itself. During cocktails at Emerson's house one evening, some of the Americans began to loosen up, and the call went out for more liquor to replenish Emerson's dwindling stock...
...only time I saw Chou a little bit annoyed," Emerson says...
Frail-looking and elegantly tailored, Chou seems sedate and almost epicene by comparison with the earthy, hard-living ex-soldiers who were his colleagues in building Red China...