We would have never belived it, if it were not told by Dorothy Hodgkin, Michael Rossmann of Purdue University said to me. He was referring to what the late Nobel laureate Dorothy Hodgkin announced in an intational meeting about the achievements of Chinese scientists in determining the crystal structure of insulin in early 70’s. This significant contribution occurred at the time when China was still deeply entangled in the chaos of the Cultural Revolution, while even in the intational community there were less than a dozen protein structures solved by scientists (Michael included) from a handful of countries. Michael and I sat in his cozy dinning room. While enjoying a breakfast with his favorite applesauce,observing a wild rabbit sneaking undeath the bush in the garden, we had a long chat. That was dudng my first visit to his lab in West Lafayette in 1980.