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Sleeping with a panda, Mary Roberts

Posted on June 1, 2013 by NZ Books

New Zealand’s China Experience: Its Genesis, Triumphs, and Occasional Moments of Less than Complete Success Chris Elder (ed) Victoria University Press, $50.00, ISBN 9780864738470 In 1972 New Zealand recognised China: how quaint this now sounds. The echoes of those far-off…

Tagged with: Chris Elder, Issue 102, Mary Roberts, Victoria University Press, Winter 2013
Posted in Non-fiction

Culling the China disease, Chris Elder

Posted on October 28, 1998 by NZ Books

The Foreign Expert: A New Zealand Journalist in China Mervyn Cull Hazard Press $24.95 ISBN 1 877161 03 9 China’s English-language press is full of the unexpected. It ranges from unlooked-for revelations (my favourite is a story which read, from…

Tagged with: Chris Elder, Hazard Press, Issue 35, Mervyn Cull
Posted in Language, Media, Non-fiction, Review