As a result, Maotai bottles are typically only found at special functions. In 1974, then-U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger reportedly told Deng Xiaoping, the high-ranking Communist official who ...

Unlike Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping did not pretend to be a poet, a philosopher or a calligrapher. The Selected Works of Deng Xiaoping, in a mere three volumes, offer few hints about the person himself.