Reginald Johnston – “that indefinable eccentric something…”

“that indefinable eccentric something…O.W. Philips describing Reginald Johnston: “Sinophile to a degree which tended to warp his judgment on any Anglo-Chinese issue, had that indefinable eccentric something that pervades all those westerners who have made a deep study of China and Chinese.”

The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City (Elliot & Thompson) is out now in the UK; US in November.