LRB Collections 5: ‘Sinomania’ tote Tony Harrison died on 26

Tony Harrison died on 26 September 2025

from bandits in Mengtze to Red Guards in the Cultural Revolution

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LRB Collections 5: ‘Sinomania’ tote Tony Harrison died on 26Writing about China from the London Review of Books What a European Old China Hand said had to be listened to carefully for the bits absurd enough to be repeated. William Empson China, as the writer Zha Jianying once put it, is way too big a cow for anyone to tackle in full. People say first tier and fourth tier cities in China are like different planets. Sometimes a person might feel foreign in her own country, Sheng Yun writes in her introduction,