Robert Bickers
Praise for Out of China
It is a pleasure to read the fruits of his mature scholarship as he revisits familiar ground, puncturing myths and putting British and Chinese views into reciprocal perspective
Michael Sheridan, The Sunday Times
Robert Bickers is a pre-eminent chronicler of China... a great story told with splashes of colour and sharp wit
Jonathan Fenby, Literary Review
This detailed account valuably reconstructs the west's recent cultural malfeasance in China, and also challenges the simple, propaganda narrative that the CCP tells about its deliverance of China from Colonial aggre ...
Julia Lovell, Prospect
It is a pleasure to read the fruits of his mature scholarship as he revisits familiar ground, puncturing myths and putting British and Chinese views into reciprocal perspective
Michael Sheridan, The Sunday Times
Robert Bickers is a pre-eminent chronicler of China... a great story told with splashes of colour and sharp wit
Jonathan Fenby, Literary Review
This detailed account valuably reconstructs the west's recent cultural malfeasance in China, and also challenges the simple, propaganda narrative that the CCP tells about its deliverance of China from Colonial aggre ...
Julia Lovell, Prospect
It is a pleasure to read the fruits of his mature scholarship as he revisits familiar ground, puncturing myths and putting British and Chinese views into reciprocal perspective
Michael Sheridan, The Sunday Times
Robert Bickers is a pre-eminent chronicler of China... a great story told with splashes of colour and sharp wit
Jonathan Fenby, Literary Review
This detailed account valuably reconstructs the west's recent cultural malfeasance in China, and also challenges the simple, propaganda narrative that the CCP tells about its deliverance of China from Colonial aggre ...
Julia Lovell, Prospect