Red China Blues
John K. Fairbank, reviewing Edgar Snow’s first book, Journey to the Beginning, describes him as a reporter who avoids the “oversimplicity of the library researcher … and of the columnist who has to know what he thinks in the first place.” As…
Canada’s Answer to the Cultural Revolution
The best night of my posting as the purveyor of Canadian culture to China came in May of 1994 in the distinctly non- Canadian and non-Chinese surroundings of the original Beijing franchise of Maxim’s de Paris. I had arranged for Montreal jazz…
Bicycles in Shanghai
by Richard Belliveau
An Asian Day is Over / Une journée en Asie c’est déjà terminée
The ADM returns to his office. He stops to ask one of the officers how the trade awards went in Indonesia. No word until tomorrow. It is now about nine o’clock in the evening in most of the Asian posts. The Asian…
Human Rights and Trade Relations: A Personal Commentary
The Tiananmen Massacre in 1989. The Canadian Ambassador to China at this time remembers how the crisis was managed and offers his own personal views on human rights and trade relations.
Profession: Canadian Foreign Correspondent
Ben Tierney has one of those rare occupations in Canada — a foreign correspondent for Canadian newspapers. Before he retired to a cottage in Scotland, Neil Reeder and Michael Welsh caught up with him in Hong Kong and were able to turn…
