Bøker av Richard Kirkby

Following on from four years in China during the final throes of the Cultural Revolution - told in Intruder in Mao's Realm - after 1980, Richard Kirkby became a serial visitor to the country. This, his second volume of China tales, sees him appearing in a variety of guises: academic researcher, thwarted business go-between, antiques hunter, earnest peace envoy. His wide-eyed travels also take him to Tibetan lands in the far interior of this ever-transforming nation.

In 1974, out of the blue, Richard Kirkby got the opportunity to go to one of the most isolated places on the planet, Communist China. Then for more than three years, he watched from the inside as China dealt with the disastrous consequences of the Culture Revolution, the death of Chairman Mao, and the beginnings of the new world that followed.