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Passport to Peking
A Very British Mission to Mao's China
By Wright, Patrick
- ISBN
- 978-0-19954-193-5
- Publisher
- Oxford Univ.
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Reviewed on February 1, 2011
Americans were forbidden to visit "Red China" after 1949, but Britishers could soon go. In 1954, former prime minister Clement Attlee found himself sipping tea with Chairman Mao—amazingly, the first sitting or former Western head of state ever to talk with the leader of new China face to face. Attlee's was the first of three British delegations, which in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
