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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.

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"""Drunken encounters with mysterious Chinese-Russians, shepherding embarrassingly arrogant titans of British industry round China, early trips to Tibet, the bizarre goings on in the Chinese multi-million-dollar antique trade. Kirkby has been intimately involved with China for nearly 50 years: he travels, listens and observes - it's all here in wonderfully colourful detail."" - Kieran Cooke, former correspondent for the BBC and Financial Times in East Asia and author of 'The Accidental Foreign Correspondent'."

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