🇨🇳 spy Ji Chaoding who operated within 🇨🇳Nationalist (Kuomintang) govt while aiding Communists.
Went to 🇺🇸 on Boxer Indemnity scholarship earned BA from University of Chicago.
He joined Communist Party of 🇺🇸 & secretly CCP.
Economics major & def strategist.
Double agent.
“Read, do not dream. Plunge into long studies—there is nothing continually good but the habit of stubborn work. It releases an opium which lulls the soul.”
—Gustave Flaubert.
“You need to not get so down, my love. I realize you're sick of the bad weather—but bad weather is everywhere these days.I'm complaining of the rain, too….The rain has stopped. I love you.”
—Vladimir Nabokov’s letter to his wife, Véra.
14 June 1926 (Berlin).