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The Best Book on Foreigners in China?

Posted: June 8th, 2013 | 1 Comment »

Got asked that question the other day in an interview so thought I’d share….it is, of course, Harold Acton’s Peonies and Ponies, which is long overdue a new reprint in case anyone with publishing power is reading this….

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One Comment on “The Best Book on Foreigners in China?”

  1. 1 Jaime Wolf said at 9:36 pm on June 8th, 2013:

    Hey Paul,

    you may know this already, but it looks like Acton’s papers are at the Beinecke @Yale, and include the unpublished mss of his collection of popular Chinese Plays (which maybe someone could be convinced is worth putting out in some context now): http://www.pkuen.com/home.php?mod=space&uid=52&do=blog&id=31

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