And when Fairbank was interviewed by the Christian Science Monitor in 1987, he explained Mao's brainwashing policy of forcing every Chinese to read only the "Little Red Book" as "educating the peasants and allowing the peasants to participate in the nation's politics."
不僅如此，中研院張朋園更指出，費正清著作等身，而且文筆明快，從早年的「經典之作」﹘﹘「美國與中國」開始，一直到一九八二年出版的自傳「夢縈中國」、乃至於三年前出版的新著「中國觀察」等，既是學術著作、又被列為暢銷書。