John Elliott China visit (late 1970s)

Elliott's textbook enshrined in glass case at Chinese university because Mao restricted European imports. Brief anecdote within the Chipman cluster.

John Elliott told me that when Nixon opened up China, Elliott in the late 70s was one of the first scientists to go from the United States. He visited one of the universities there and they had a book called Elliott and Gleiser. John Elliott and Molly Gleiser had written it on thermochemistry for steel making. They had it enshrined in a glass case at the library, because Mao Tse-tung didn't allow them to purchase European things. Harold Larson's got a case of those volumes down in the basement. He was a student with John Elliott at the time.