Mike Cormack

Anglo-Chinese misunderstanding: an Oxford don visits 1960s Beijing

Though promised free access and movement, Hugh Trevor-Roper was heavily monitored during his stay, leading to much indignation in his journal

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  • The China Journals: Ideology and Intrigue in the 1960s

    Hugh Trevor-Roper, edited by Richard Davenport-Hines

    Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 296, £25

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