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Charles W. Hayford on Passport to Peking – in The Library Journal (1 Feb 2011) »
February 2nd, 2011 | Posted in: Articles General, News and Previews (past)
“Acerbic and fair-minded . . . social comedy with a rueful edge…” and “a reminder that there was a moment, before the sky darkened and the earth opened up, when the People’s Republic seemed full of possibility”. »
January 27th, 2011 | Posted in: Articles General, News and PreviewsRichard B Woodward reviews Passport to Peking in the Wall Street Journal» Raymond Zhong, does the same – also in the Wall Street Journal»
14 Little Red Huts at the London School of Economics »
January 26th, 2011 | Posted in: Articles General, News and Previews (past)George Bernard Shaw Greets the Russian Socialist Utopia
“On the Continent the waiters have red hair” – Failures of the Modern ‘Discovery Mission’ »
January 9th, 2011 | Posted in: Articles General, Miscellaneous rigs of the timeAnother reflection on the western travellers who crossed the Iron and Bamboo Curtains . . .
‘Useful idiots’ or what? A reply to Jonathan Mirsky »
December 15th, 2010 | Posted in: Articles General, ChinaA letter published under the heading ‘Mirsky is mistaken’ in the Spectator on 11 December 2010.
Diggers and Levellers in Red China? »
October 30th, 2010 | Posted in: Articles General, Englishness and British national identity‘On 1 October 1954, Sir Hugh Casson, the urbane professor of interior design who had been director of architecture at the Festival of Britain, found himself standing by the Tiananmen Gate in the ancient and still walled city of Peking…’ An article in the Guardian Review.
‘The end of the public university in England’? »
October 28th, 2010 | Posted in: Articles General, Found Objects, KulchurJames Vernon’s thoughts on the future of the humanities in British universities.
Don’t count the turds: on Owen Hatherley and The New Ruins of Great Britain »
October 26th, 2010 | Posted in: Art & its applications, Articles General, Englishness and British national identityA review published in Architecture Today (212, October 2010, p. 6).
China in Cheltenham, 17 October 2010 »
October 14th, 2010 | Posted in: Articles General, News and Previews (past)I’ll be at the Cheltenham Festival, giving an illustrated talk about Passport to Peking, at 1600 on Sunday 17 October 2010.
‘Faintly comic’? On ‘Night Waves’? »
October 14th, 2010 | Posted in: Articles General, News and Previews (past)