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Contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
Part I. In the Spirit of Geneva (London to Minsk)
1. Embarkation
2. Holding Out in the Legation Quarter
3. Paul Hogarth's Marxist Shudder
4. The Battle of British 'Friendship'
5. The Charms of Anti-Americanism
6. Barbara Castle's Bevanite Sigh
7. Chou En-Lai's Winning Smile
Part II. One Good Elk and Dinner with the Politburo (Moscow)
8. Flowers for Edith Summerskill
9. Just Like Manchester a Hundred Years Ago
10. The Tragic Thoughts of Chairman Smith
11. Stanley Spencer's Pyjama Cord and the Socialist Tree
Part III. Anticipating China (Moscow to Ulan Bator)
12. Ghosts over Siberia (Casson and Pulleyblank)
13. A Blue Jacket for Abraham Lincoln (Paul Hogarth)
14. How China Came to Cookham (Stanley Spencer)
15. The Flight of a Brown Phoenix (Cedric Dover)
Part IV. Listening to the Oriole (China)
16. Clement Attlee's Break
17. Popeyed among the Tibetans: The Undiplomatic Rapture of the Cultural Delegation
18. Cadillacs, Coal Mines, and Co-operatives: The Second Labour Delegation Grapples with the Facts
19. 'Nuts about Pavlov'? Resuming the Scientific Dialogue
Part V. The Artist's Reckoning (China)
20. Revolution Comes to the Art Schools and Museums
21. Paul Hogarth's Sky Full of Diamonds
22. Stanley Spencer's English Takeaway Afterword: Holy China?
Appendix: Membership of Three Delegations
Notes
Photographic Acknowledgements
Index
Preface
Part I: In the Spirit of Geneva: London to Minsk (via Cookham, Peking, and Hangchow)
1. Embarking for the Bamboo Curtain
2. Holding Out in the Legation Quarter
3. Paul Hogarth's Marxist Shudder
4. The Rise and Fall of 'Friendship'
5. Clement Attlee's Snooze
6. The Uses of Anti-Americanism
7. Barbara Castle's Sigh
8. Chou En-Lai's Smile
Part II: One Good Elk: Moscow (via Salford and Stoke on Trent)
9. Just Like Manchester a Hundred Years AgoL
10. Dining with the Politburo
11. The Wandering Thoughts of Chairman Smith
12. Stanley Spencer's Pyjama Cord and the Socialism of Trees
Part III: Anticipating China: Moscow to Ulan Bator (via Cathay, Calcutta and the Middle Kingdom)
13. Armchairs over Siberia
14. English Chinoiserie of Right and Left
15. The Flight of a Brown Phoenix
Part IV: In China
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