BBU was founded by Rewi Alley and its history dates back to the anti-Japanese war.
The film has been criticized for ignoring the role of Rewi Alley, a Communist New Zealander celebrated in China's revolution.
With Rewi Alley, Burchett wrote China: The Quality of Life (1973) which Robert Manne asserts is "a book of unconditional praise for Maoist China following the Great Leap Forward and the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution".
Tin Pan Alley | Alley Theatre | Thunder Alley | Back Alley Oproar | Rewi Alley | Smock Alley Theatre | Lindsey Alley | The Alley Cats | Sally in Our Alley | Damnation Alley | tornado alley | Thunder Alley (film) | The Alley Cats (Los Angeles punk band) | Steampipe Alley | Sniper Alley | Silicon Alley Reporter | Silicon Alley | Richard F Outcault's last ''Hogan's Alley'' cartoon for ''Truth'' magazine, ''Fourth Ward Brownies'', was published on 9 February 1895 and reprinted in the ''New York World'' newspaper on 17 February 1895, beginning one of the first comic strips in an American newspaper. The character later known as the Yellow Kid had minor supporting roles in the strip's early panels. This one refers to ''The Brownies | Richard Alley | Rewi Maniapoto | Printer's Alley | Hogan's Alley (comic strip) | Hogan's Alley | Damnation Alley (film) | Creeque Alley | Carroll Alley | Blues Alley | Blood Alley | Alphonse Alley |
During the Peking visit he was re-introduced to his old friends including his former room-mate at Yenching, now Deputy Foreign Minister, Huang Hua and Rewi Alley.