Sir Alan Donald remembers his first trip to China by boat in 1955. It was a journey that took 5 weeks stopping at every British coaling party on the way – Port Said, Calcutta, Penang, Hong Kong. He was astonished to find that life in Shanghai at that time in the 50s – even after the Communist revolution – had not changed since the 1930s.
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