I read it a few years ago and remember liking it well enough. Don't remember anything explicitly political from it other than cultural revolution = really bad, which is an opinion shared by most chinese communists, and it's been too long for me to remember any of the more implied stuff, so maybe that was really dumb and I just didn't pay attention.

Western journalists were raging at him back then since he supported the CPC though, so that made me like him more :shrug-outta-hecks: