Moonlight Robbery: China 1938

William Empson

One of the ideas about China still often held by people in England is that China is full of bandits, and it seems worth offering a bit of out-of-date reportage on this topic; there is no moral except that the bandit situation had very intelligible causes and has been getting under control.

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Vol. 17 No. 19 · 5 October 1995 » » Moonlight Robbery: China 1938 (print version)
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