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Bodleian Library, Oxford. Papers of Sir Isaiah Berlin, Dorothy Hodgkin, Nicholas Kurti, Kurt Mendelssohn, Sir Patrick Reilly, Sir Stephen Spender and Harold Wilson.
Cambridge University Library. Papers of Joseph Needham.
Christ Church, Oxford. Papers of Lord Dacre of Glanton.
Churchill College, Cambridge. Papers of Patrick Gordon Walker.
Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Diaries of Jimmie Wei.
I Tatti, Settignano. Papers of Nicky Mariano.
King’s College, Cambridge. Papers of Lord Annan and Joan Robinson.
Mitchell Library, Sydney. Papers of G. E. Morrison.
National Archives, Kew. Papers of Foreign Office, Foreign & Commonwealth Office and of the Security Service.
School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Papers of Derek Bryan.
Worcester College, Oxford. Papers of J. C. Masterman.
Working Class Movement Library, Salford. Papers of Ernie Roberts.
The following secondary sources were written by members of SACU.
Ash, William. Morals and Politics: the ethics of revolution. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1977.
Ash, William. Red Square: the autobiography of an unconventional revolutionary. London: Howard Baker, 1978.
Ash, William. Marxist Morality. Delhi: Ajanta Publications, 1998.
Ayer, A. J. ‘Impressions of Communist China’, The Listener, 2 December 1954.
Ayer, A. J. More of My Life. London: Collins, 1984.
Beatson, Peter and Dianne, eds. Dear Peggy: letters to Margaret Garland from her New Zealand friends. Palmerston North: Massey University Sociology Department, 1997.
Bryan, Derek. China’s Taiwan. London: British-China Friendship Association, 1959.
Bryan, Derek. The Land and People of China. London: A. & C. Black, 1964.
Collier, John and Elsie. China’s Socialist Revolution. London: stage 1, 1973.
Dawson, Raymond. The Chinese Chameleon: an analysis of European conceptions of Chinese civilization. London: Oxford University Press, 1967.
Dawson, Raymond. The Chinese Experience. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1978.
Gelder, Stuart and Roma. The Long March to Freedom. London: Hutchinson, 1962.
Gelder, Stuart and Roma. The Timely Rain: travels in new Tibet. London: Hutchinson, 1964.
Gelder, Stuart and Roma. Memories for a Chinese Grand-daughter. London: Hutchinson, 1967.
Luard, Evan. Britain and China. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962.
Mendelssohn, Kurt. In China Now. London: Hamlyn, 1969.
Needham, Joseph. Time: the Refreshing River (Essays and Addresses 1932–1942). London: George Allen & Unwin, 1943.
Needham, Joseph. History is on our Side. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1946.
Needham, Joseph. Science and Society in Ancient China: Conway memorial lecture delivered at Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, WC1 on May 12th, 1947. London: Watts & Co., 1947.
Pulleyblank, Edwin G. Chinese History and World History: an inaugural lecture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1955.
Roberts, Ernie. Strike Back. Orpington: Ernie Roberts, 1994.
Robinson, Joan. Letters from a Visitor to China. Cambridge: Students’ Bookshops, 1954.
Robinson, Joan. The Cultural Revolution in China. London: Penguin, 1969.
Timberlake, Percy. The 48 Group: the story of the Icebreakers in China. London: the 48 Group Club, 1994.
The making of books and articles about Mao’s China is illimitable. The following list gives those that were notably helpful in providing either general background information or specific details.
Acton, Sir Harold. Memoirs of an Aesthete. London: Methuen, 1948.
Ashton, Stephen and Bennett, Gill, eds. Documents on British Policy Overseas. Series 1, volume 8. London: Whitehall History Publishing, 2002.
Balázs, Étienne [Istvan]. Chinese Civilization and Bureaucracy: variations on a theme. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.
Barthes, Roland. Travels in China. Cambridge, Mass: Polity, 2012.
Bodard, Lucien. La Chine de la douceur. Paris: Gallimard, 1957.
Bodard, Lucien. La Chine de cauchemar. Paris: Gallimard, 1961.
Boyd-Orr, Lord. What’s Happening in China? London: Macdonald, 1959.
Brady, Anne-Marie. Making the Foreign Serve China: managing foreigners in the People’s Republic. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2003.
Buchanan, Tom. East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925–1976. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Caute, David. Isaac & Isaiah: the covert punishment of a Cold War heretic. London: Yale University Press, 2013.
Clayre, Alasdair. The Heart of the Dragon. London: Collins, 1984.
Crossman, Richard. ‘Chinese Notebook’, Encounter, March 1959, pp. 11–22.
Cormac, Rory. Disrupt and Deny: spies, Special Forces, and the secret pursuit of British foreign policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Croft, Michael. Red Carpet to China. London: Longmans, Green, 1958.
Dikötter, Frank. Mao’s Great Famine: the history of China’s most devastating catastrophe, 1958–62. London: Bloomsbury, 2010.
Dylan, Huw. Defence Intelligence and the Cold War: Britain’s Joint Intelligence Bureau 1945–1964. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Fabre-Luce, Alfred. ‘Chinese Journey’, Encounter, August 1959, pp. 17–26.
Feuerwerker, Albert, ed. History in Communist China. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1968.
Goldman, Merle. Literary Dissent in Communist China. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1967.
Guillain, Robert. The Blue Ants: 600 million Chinese under the red flag. London: Secker & Warburg, 1956.
Hollander, Paul. Political Pilgrims: travels of Western intellectuals to the Soviet Union, China and Cuba, 1928–1978. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Hollander, Paul. From Benito Mussolini to Hugo Chavez: intellectuals and a century of political hero worship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Hudson, Geoffrey. Europe and China: a survey of their relations from the earliest times to 1800. London: Edwin Arnold, 1931.
Hudson, Geoffrey. Questions of East and West: studies in current history. London: Odhams, 1953.
Hudson, Geoffrey. ‘Mme de Beauvoir in China’, Encounter, February 1959, pp. 64–7.
Koningsberger, Hans. Love and Hate in China. London: Jonathan Cape, 1967.
Leys, Simon. Les Habits Neufs du Président Mao. Paris: Champs Libre, 1971.
Leys, Simon. Chinese Shadows. New York: Viking, 1977.
Leys, Simon. The Burning Forest: essays on Chinese culture and politics. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1986.
Leys, Simon. The Halls of Uselessness: collected essays. New York: New York Review Books, 2013.
Lovell, Julia. Maoism: A Global History. London: Bodley Head, 2019.
Lowenthal, Richard. ‘Mao’s Revolution: The Chinese Handwriting on the Wall’, Encounter, April 1967, pp. 3–9.
Mitter, Rana. A Bitter Revolution: China’s struggle with the modern world. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.
Passin, Herbert. China’s Cultural Diplomacy. New York: Frederick Praeger, 1962.
Peyrefitte, Alain. La Chine s’est éveillée: carnets de route d l’ère Deng Xiaoping. Paris: Fayard, 1996.
Pike, Francis. Empires at War: a short history of modern Asia since World War II. London: I.B.Tauris, 2010.
Robinson, Geoffrey R. The Killing Season: a history of the Indonesian massacres, 1965–66. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
Roy, Jules. Le voyage en Chine. Paris: Juillard, 1965.
Smith, Stephen A. Revolution and the People in Russia and China: a comparative history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Smith, Stephen A., ed. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Communism. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.
Schoenhals, Michael. Spying for the People: Mao’s secret agents, 1949–1967. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Sisman, Adam. Hugh Trevor-Roper: the biography. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2010.
Thomas, Donald. ‘East Wind, West Wind: Chinese Students in Cardiff’, Encounter, July 1967, pp. 56–60.
Trevelyan, Humphrey. Worlds Apart: China 1953–5: Soviet Union 1962–5. London: Macmillan, 1971.
Trevelyan, Humphrey. Diplomatic Channels. London: Macmillan, 1973.
Tsang, Steve. The Cold War’s Odd Couple: the unintended partnership between the Republic of China and the UK, 1950–1958. London: I.B. Tauris, 2006.
Tuohy, Frank. ‘From a Chinese Diary’, Encounter, December 1966, pp. 7–13.
Welch, Holmes. ‘The Chinese Art of Make-Believe’, Encounter, May 1968, pp. 8–13.
Will, Pierre-Étienne and Ang, Isabelle. Actualité d’Étienne Balázs (1905–1963): témoignages et réflexions pour un centenaire. Paris: Collège de France, Institut de Hautes Études Chinoises, 2010.
Wootton, Barbara. ‘Journey to China’, Encounter, June 1973, pp. 21–7.
Wright, Patrick. Passport to Peking: a very British mission to Mao’s China. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010.