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...dare to think about it,” high-school junior Haisha Chen says. “Maybe I will transfer to Harvard after a year.” —Staff writer Ying Wang can be reached at yingwang@fas.harvard.edu. —Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached at luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...
...sure would actually take place. Yet as Nixon was going over his briefing books and practicing how to use chopsticks en route to Beijing, the seriously ill Mao was getting his first shave and haircut in months. As soon as Air Force One landed and Nixon greeted Premier Zhou Enlai with a prolonged handshake, Mao ordered Zhou to bring the President immediately to his house in Zhongnanhai...
...leitmotiv, MacMillan, a University of Toronto historian, deftly weaves together biographies of all the principals (including their wives), contemporary geopolitics (China and the Soviet Union were at odds over their interpretations of communism), and a perceptive understanding of Chinese sensibilities. She explains, for example, the importance of that Nixon-Zhou handshake and a later one between Nixon and Mao that appears on the book's cover: the Chinese feared a replay of their humiliating snub at the 1954 Geneva conference on Indochina and Korea, when U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles spurned Zhou's proffered hand...
...Lulu Zhou contributed to the reporting of this story. —Staff writer Margaret W. Ho can be reached at mwho@fas.harvard.edu...
...that may be sheer coincidence,” he wrote.If the American Heritage Dictionary is anything to go by, “Lulu” is a fitting name: “A remarkable person, object, or idea.”—Staff writer Lulu Zhou can be reached luluzhou@fas.harvard.edu...