A Few Posts Related to my BBC Radio 3 Doc – A Chinese Odyssey: Artists, Poets and Exiles in Interwar London – William Empson & Chiang Yee

Sadly time constraints meant that I edited out the small piece I had in my BBC Radio 3 documentary A Chinese Odyssey on the poet (who had been in China prior to WW2 teaching) William Empson. Orwell casts a long shadow at the BBC Eastern Service during the War and Empson gets a little forgotten. Anyway, just to show that he was in touch with the NW3 Chinese intellectuals, here’s a letter from Empson to Chiang Yee in 1944 arranging a talk. Chiang Yee at the time was in Edinburgh arranging an exhibition at the Scottish National Gallery……