2021年9月去世的美國著名新聞記者梅兆贊（Jonathan Mirsky），年輕時是激烈的反越戰分子，以「毛粉」自許，在中美關係突破的1972年首次訪華。到中國後不久，訪問團就被帶去見一個「典型的中國工人家庭」。那戶人家似乎很富裕，家裡布置得不錯。接待的人告訴訪問團，在中國，犯罪是不存在的。第二天早上，梅兆贊在附近散步時，碰見了來自那個「典型」家庭的父親。他邀請中國話流利的梅兆贊到他真正的家裡去，那是一間破舊的寓所，並說，事實上，他們頭天去的是中國當局專門安排給「外國友人」參觀的公寓。這名男子還解釋說，犯罪行為其實並不少見。
Jonathan Mirsky, a prominent American journalist who died in September 2021, was a fierce anti-Vietnam War activist in his youth and a self-proclaimed 'Mao fan' who made his first visit to China in 1972, the year of the breakthrough in Sino-American relations. Soon after arriving in China, the delegation was taken to meet a 'typical Chinese working family'. The family seemed to be well off and the home was well decorated. The receptionist told the delegation that crime did not exist in China. The next morning, while walking around the neighbourhood, Mei Zhaozan ran into the father of the 'typical' family. He invited Mei, who was fluent in Chinese, to his real home, a dilapidated apartment, and said that, in fact, the first day they had gone to a flat that the Chinese authorities had arranged for "foreign friends" to visit. The man also explained that criminal behaviour was not uncommon.
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