Tables were laid out in the palace, profusely covered with wines and refreshments, in the European style; old hands and griffins, fair sex and civilians, seemed all determined to enjoy themselves[…]

One branch of them went north-east into North China and settled there, or stayed on in their original home in the Hwang-Ho valley, long before 2000 B.C., and there it became the ancient Chinese people, who built up a very high and original type of civilisation before 1500 B.C., which independently of any other cultures reached its highest point during the first year-thousand before Christ, and attained still further development through contact with Buddhism and Indian civilisation during the first year-thousand after Christ.

The Persians, in naming their country, make use of one word, which they indifferently pronounce Iroun, and Iran.

In addition to its criticism of Ye Wenfu, Talk About Problems on the Ideological Front also criticized a literary alliance preparatory group convener in Wulumuqi, Xinjiang Province. Deng Xiaoping said the following: There was also the convener of the literary alliance preparatory group in Wulumuqi, Xinjiang, who aired his views freely a few days ago; much of what he said went much farther than some anti-socialist statements made in 1957. Quite a few incidents of this kind have taken place. (Deng’s Selected Works, page 45).... Deng Xiaoping acknowledged that he felt very alarmed at reading information about Ye Wenfu's speech and about the literary alliance convener in Wulumuqi. Opposition to bourgeois liberalization was thus launched under these circumstances.