Edwin Moise

Edwin Moise who teaches history at Clemson University in South Carolina, is the author of Land Reform in China and North Vietnam and of Modern China: A History (Longman, 256 pp., £15.95 and £7.95, 17 March, 0 582 490 766).

Our Man in Beijing

Edwin Moise, 20 November 1986

Alan Winnington, a member of the British Communist Party from the early Thirties, went to China in 1948 as a correspondent for the Daily Worker, and lived there for most of the next 12 years. His autobiography runs from his childhood up to his departure from China in 1960. He comes across as a likeable man, and he has written a marvellously readable memoir, but it has the failings one would expect of a book written twenty to thirty years after the events it describes, by a man of passionate political loyalties, who died before he could finish the manuscript or check the accuracy of the parts written from memory.

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