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Oxford University Press
Language
English
Pages
591

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Subjects
British, Great Britain, China, Relations, Foreign relations, History, China, history, 1949-, China, description and travel
People
Zedong Mao (1893-1976)
Places
Great Britain, China
Times
20th century, 1949-1976

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Passport to Peking: a very British mission to Mao's China
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Table of 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.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-565) and index.

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327.41051
Library of Congress
DA47.9.C6 W75 2010, DA47.9.C6

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591 p., [8] p. of col. plates :
Number of pages
591

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OL24884053M
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ISBN 13
9780199541935
LCCN
2010549922
OCLC/WorldCat
607987823

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