The Royal Asiatic Society Journal 2022

The 2022 Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society China is now available. Articles include me on Hsiao Ch’ien, Hsiung Shih-I & George Orwell at the BBC Eastern Service in WW2, Duncan Hewitt on JG Ballard’s Shanghai origins, James Carter on the Doolittle Raids & China, Jeremiah Jenne on the 19^th century Mission of Claude-Marie Chevrier, Graham Earnshaw on QEII’s China visit in 1986, Sven Serrano on Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov & the Russian Mission to Japan, Julie Chun on Shanghai girl cigarette advertising, George Godula on the history of the Kiessling Cafés, John Van Fleet on the crucial reforms of 1978, Yufeng Lucas Wu on a Peking opera family troupe from the 1600s plus book reviews from Frances Wood, Edith Terry & others. All edited by Melinda Liu. Email communications@rasbj.org for this, or any recent past, issues.