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Passport to Peking : a very British mission to Mao's China
- Title
- Passport to Peking : a very British mission to Mao's China / Patrick Wright.
- Author
- Wright, Patrick.
- Publication
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xxi, 591 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-565) and index.
- Contents
- In the spirit of Geneva (London to Minsk). Embarkation ; Holding out in the Legation Quarter ; Paul Hogarth's Marxist shudder ; The battle of British "friendship" ; The charms of Anti-Americanism ; Barbara Castle's Bevanite sigh -- Chou En-Lai's winning smile -- One good elk and dinner with the Politburo (Moscow). Flowers for Edith Summerskill ; Just like Manchester a hundred years ago ; The tragic thoughts of Chairman Smith ; Stanley Spencer's pyjama cord and the socialist tree -- Anticipating China (Moscow to Ulan Bator). Ghosts over Siberia (Casson and Pulleyblank) ; A blue jacket for Abraham Lincoln (Paul Hogarth) ; How China came to Cookham (Stanley Spencer) ; The flight of a brown phoenix (Cedric Dover) -- Listening to the oriole (China). Clement Attlee's break ; Popeyed among the Tibetans : the undiplomatic rapture of the cultural delegation ; Cadillacs, coal mines, and co-opperatives : the second Labour delegation grapples with the facts ; "Nuts about Pavlov" : resuming the scientific dialogue -- The artist's reckoning (China). Revolution comes to the art schools and museums ; Paul Hogarth's sky full of diamonds ; Stanley's Spencer's English takeaway ; Afterword : holy China? ; Appendix : membership of three delegations.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-2454
- ISBN
- 9780199541935 (acid-free paper)
- 0199541930 (acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- 2010549922
- OCLC
- 607987823
- Author
- Wright, Patrick.
- Title
- Passport to Peking : a very British mission to Mao's China / Patrick Wright.
- Imprint
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-565) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-2454