After reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1949, the year of the founding of the People’s Republic of China, Huxley sent his former pupil a letter praising the novel. He noted the emphasis that it put on rule via “boot-on-the-face” techniques and puritanical distaste for pleasure.
在1949年也就是中华人民共和国成立的那一年阅读过《1984》年之后， 贺胥黎给他从前的学生写了一封信，对这本小说提出了表扬。他对小说强调的通过掩耳盗铃式的技巧和娱乐方面严格的道德倾向进行统治做出了重点说明。