An Abridged Extract from Destination Peking for The China Project – Beijing’s favorite Bolshevik

The China Project kindly suggested i might like to abridge a chapter from my collection Destination Peking (Blacksmith Books) for their readers. I thought perhaps the chapter on Lev Karakhan, the first Soviet Ambassador to China might be interesting and offer some background on the ever rocky Russia-China relationship…You can read it here