Penelope Fitzgerald Goes to China – 1977

I wrote my first piece for the Los Angeles Review of Books China Channel last week…the idea being to find some literary/historical-inclined vignettes with a Shanghai angle…and so, as the new film of The Bookshop is being released around the world, I thought I’d go back and look at Penelope Fitzgerald’s 1977 package holiday to China where, bored in a Shanghai hotel room, she started writing The Bookshop….click here to read…