In 1946, in an article in Atlantic Monthly, Fairbank praised Mao Tse-tung and others as "agrarian reformers," and proclaimed that they were produced from the Chinese land and people, and absolutely were not the puppets of the Soviet Communist International.
在一九四六年發表於「大西洋月刊」的一篇文章中，費正清讚許毛澤東等人是「農村改革者」，聲稱他們是從中國的土地和人民中自動自發孕育出來的，絕不是蘇俄「共產國際」用以顛覆世界的傀儡。