Deng found himself sitting next to Shirley MacLaine ... She was fulsome in praise for some of the benefits of Mao's policies, and told Deng of a story she had heard about a Chinese intellectual who was actually grateful for the Cultural Revolution. Sent into the countryside to grow tomatoes, she said, the man said he had experienced a wonderful object lesson in realism in realism and human life.
'He was lying,' Deng replied.
J. Clements, The Emperor's feast (2021), 186
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