^* In October 2008 I relived the Battle of the Huai-Hai. On the invitation of the editors of the Xuzhou Daily, I was invited to revisit the battlefield and tour the magnificent museum that had been erected there in commemoration of the Huai-Hai campaign. I was stunned by the appearance of Hsuchow itself (now Xuzhou in Pinyin). In November 1948, I had left a shabby, disordered city of 300,000 enduring artillery shelling by the besieging PLA. Now it was a metropolis of some 1.7 million people with a skyline of high-rise office and apartment buildings. On the tour I was accompanied by Audrey, Professor Li Xiguang, executive dean of Tsinghua University’s School of Journalism, my daughter Karen, and my grandson, Torin. We were escorted with ceremony to the Memorial Museum of the Huai-Hai Campaign, a handsome, stone-fronted building opened in 2007. Before it stood a towering gold-colored monument, its base carved with figures of soldiers in combat. In the museum, crowded with Chinese tourists, there were digitalized tableaux of battle scenes and life-size figures of both Communist and Nationalist generals in strategy conferences. Some 20,000 of the 30,000 PLA soldiers killed in the Huai-Hai campaign were memorialized in photographs and digital images. Atop the museum there was a huge revolving depiction of a battle scene on painted canvas that had taken ten painters eight months to complete. I was asked to donate my notebook and copies of my dispatches for an exhibit. In January, on the sixtieth anniversary of the triumphant end of the battle, Chinese Central Television (CCTV), the largest network in the country, showed for six consecutive nights a six-part documentary of the Huai-Hai campaign. One of the episodes was devoted to an interview with me.