Passport to Peking
Subtitle: a very British mission to Mao's China
By: Patrick Wright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9780199541935
Subjects: Great Britain; China; Relations; History; British; Foreign relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-565) and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Chou En-Lai's winning smile; title: 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; title: 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); title: 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; title: 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.