The China Journals

Enjoyable for the human comedy and high quality of Trevor-Roper's prose. * The Spectator * Expertly edited, with touches of wit, but with pathos, too... The China Journals is a book as suitable for relishing Trevor-Roper's bitchy brilliance as it is for its fascinating insight into a China about to change forever. * History Today * Scholarly, incisive and omniscient, Davenport-Hines has done another wonderful job ... Consistently entertaining. * Literary Review * These diaries are as much about the forgotten world of Britain's intellectual and academic elite in the Cold Wars as they are about China. They offer unusual light on the cultural Cold War underway in the West between fellow travellers of the Communist regimes, then apparently on the rise, and Western anti-Communists of various strains. * The Oldie *

Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914-2003) was Regius Professor of History at the University of Oxford for over twenty years, a member of the House of Lords from 1979 and Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge 1980-87. His historical interests included England during the 17th century civil wars, the history of ideas during the Renaissance and Enlightenment, 20th century espionage and treason, and Hitler's Germany. Trevor-Roper was a senior wartime Intelligence officer, and retained his links with the security services until the 1970s. He also travelled widely overseas as a highly regarded special correspondent for the Sunday Times. Richard Davenport-Hines has edited or co-edited three previous volumes of Hugh Trevor-Roper's letters and journals. His most recent book is a study of communist espionage, the Security Service and the Cambridge spies, Enemies Within (2018). He is a Former Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford, UK.

A Note on the Text List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. China, 1965 2. London and Oxford, 1965 3. History of a Front Organisation, 1966 4. Taiwan and Cambodia, 1967 Appendix A. Through Others' Eyes: Peking and London Appendix B. Trevor-Roper's Companions in China Acknowledgements Bibliography Index