I will be posting the occasional piece of light holiday reading over the next two weeks, starting with this piece. Robert Skidelsky comes from a Jewish-Russian family, and writes in the January 2006 issue of Prospect magazine about his Chinese homecoming.
A railway contract brought my Russian family to Manchuria 110 years ago. Now that China's European past is unfreezing, I am welcomed back like a long-lost son to my birthplace, Harbin. I had been plotting my return to China for about a year, and now an invitation from Lanxin Xiang, author of a book on the Boxer rebellion, to lecture in Shanghai in September 2005 made it possible.
I say "return," because the last time I had been on the mainland was in 1948, when I was nine years old. I was born in Harbin in Manchuria in 1939, came to England when I was three, and then went back to China with my parents in 1947, living for a little over a year in Tientsin (now Tianjin). We escaped to Hong Kong just before the communists took the city...
The mind, sharp but not broad, sticks at every point but does not move.
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