A Chinese documentary about reformist leader Deng Xiaoping’s 1979 visit to the US has triggered a wave of excitement over a scene depicting an attack at a hotel in Texas.
Mr Deng Goes to Washington , including interviews with then-president Jimmy Carter, opened this weekend in Beijing. The documentary depicts for the first time in China an attack on Deng by a Ku Klux Klan member, which was not then reported by China’s heavily controlled official press, but stops short of calling it an assassination attempt.
Reactions to the incident show the growing sense of the US as a menace combined with a public hunger for previously suppressed incidents.