Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on November 03, 2006 at 18:10:56 from 81.144.214.226 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Missee Lee (AR Books in shops) posted by PeterH on November 03, 2006 at 17:12:30:
Thank you, Peter!
I like the story; the plot is clever and there is a lot of quiet humour in the book, but if I were running a children's bookshop in, say, Hong Kong or Singapore, I might not stock it.
I would rather like to know if AR ever sent Soong Ching-Ling a copy?
His despatches from Shanghai make his own position perfectly clear. But we must remember that, when it was written, "Missee Lee" was
somewhere to the Left of the orthodoxy prevailing amongst "Shanghailanders"; absent that long-forgotten "expat" milieu, the book seems strange.