Scottish Literary Connections to China and Tibet

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  Adam Smith In Beijing: Lineages Of The Twenty-First Century Giovanni Arrighi
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  Binu And The Great Wall Tong Su
  In Peach village, crying is forbidden, but as a child, Binu never learnt to hide her tears. Shunned by the villagers, she faced a bleak future, until she met Qiliang, an orphan who offered her his hand in marriage.
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  Bound With Love: Letters Home From China 1935-1945
  This title presents a historical and social commentary of letters sent from China by Ronald and Gwyneth Still between 1935 and 1945.
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  Chinese Whispers Peter May
  Peter May's terrifying new China thriller pits Li Yan and Margaret Campbell against an unscrupulous foe who could prove to be their deadliest enemy yet.
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  Chingwangtao To Kinross: A Personal Memoir Rosamund Beveridge
  Rosamund Beveridge was born and brought up in China. She never went to school, and first visited the UK when she was 25. This volume is an account of her childhood, youth and marriage in China. The rest of her life, during which she has met with personal tragedy as well as public recognition, is described with modesty and good humour.
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  The Dragon's Tail Adam Williams
  Two lovers are torn apart by politics and history in this epic romance of 20th century China, during a period of dizzying change. Previous novels by Williams include 'The Palace of Heavenly Pleasure' and 'The Emperor's Bones'.
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  The Dungeon Lynne Reid Banks
  Bruce McLennan, a Scottish laird, is a domineering master, a cruel man, who has his heart set on building himself a castle and a dungeon in which to punish his enemies. As the castle is being built he travels to China and beyond and buys Peony, a young girl who he uses as a slave.
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  Escape From England Gunther Plüschow
  In either World War, only one German escaped from mainland Britain - Gunther Plüschow, and this book tells the story. It also gives a unique account of the siege of Tsingtao in 1914 and Pluschow's escape from China across the Pacific to America and then Europe.
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  Explore The Great Wall Jacquetta Megarry
  The Great Wall of China is the largest construction on Earth and the best way to appreciate it is to explore it on foot. This illustrated guide offers practical information on travel and transport and includes drop-down mapping of wall and sections, with historical and cultural background.
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  Flight Of The Mandarins Shirley Worrall
  Daughter of the manse Ishbel Montrose had always wanted to become a missionary, so she was thrilled to leave 1920s Edinburgh for a post in Shanghai. Meanwhile, at home, her sister Mary has a suitor she must keep secret, and Robbie, their fourteen-year-old brother, has plans for stowing away to China.
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  In The Bag Ronan O'Donnell
  'In The Bag' is a contemporary play from China. It tells the story of ordinary lives caught up in Beijing's ecoomic revolution.
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  The Keys Of The Kingdom A. J. Cronin
  Priest Francis Chisholm is thought of as a maverick by his superiors so, when the mission in China needs a new recruit, he is requested to apply. When he arrives in Pai-Tan in 1902, the mission is deserted and the local Chinese respond to him with disdain. Then Civil War looms and his faith and courage are put to the test.
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  Letters From The Great Wall Jenni Calder
  Eleanor Dickinson escapes Scotland and the inevitability of the direction of her life to the Eastern strangeness of China. In leaving behind the physical closeness of her relationships with her partner, brother and family, she is able to analyse and confront 'the mush of dissatisfaction' that had been expanding to fill her life.
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  News From Tartary: A Journey From Peking To Kashmir Peter Fleming
  News from Tartary is the story of a 3500 mile trip across China from Peking, through the mysterious province of Sinkiang, to India. It is one of the most difficult trips that could have been made in the 1930s, or even today.
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  One Million Days In China Emma Leighton
  A guide published to accompany the 'One Million Days in China' exhibition of Chinese art and artifacts at the Burrell Collection in Glasgow.
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  Prisoner 13498: A True Story Of Love, Drugs And Jail In Modern China Robert H. Davies
  This is the story of Davies, who first went to China in 1988 as an overland backpacker, fell in love with an Uighur lady who was already married with a daughter, became embroiled in drug trafficking and ended up serving time in prison in Shanghai.
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  Reginald Johnston: Chinese Mandarin Shiona Airlie; National Museums of Scotland
  The colonial officer and scholar Reginald Johnston, best known as the tutor and advisor to the last Emperor of China, is the subject of this story of conflicting cultures and changing societies in the early 20th century.
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  Rupert Murdoch's Adventures In China: How Murdoch Lost A Fortune And Found A Wife Bruce Dover
  In the mid-1990s, amid rumours that he had an agenda to bring down totalitarian regimes, Rupert Murdoch was blackballed by the Chinese authorities and a 'Murdoch File' was opened by a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party. This is the inside story on Ruper Murdoch's dealings in China.
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  The Shanghai Union Of Industrial Mystics Nury Vittachi
  All hell's breaking loose in Shanghai. A group of hyper-vegan terrorists are threatening to blow up the city. There's a potentially explosive white elephant on the loose and the world's two most important presidents are due to visit.
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  Typhoon Charles Cumming
  In the dying days of British rule in Hong Kong, an elderly man emerges from the sea demanding to see the Governor. He has, he says, information which threatens not just the territory's future, but that of China's stability itself. Information which, it soon becomes apparent, the CIA and MI6 will stop at nothing to control.
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  A Winter In China Douglas Galbraith
  Able, bored and just down from Cambridge in the summer of 1937, Sally Marsden contemplates her future without enthusiasm. So many have assumed she will marry Hugh Jerrold, it is, practically, an engagement. On a trip to China to see Hugh, Sally is soon caught up in the Sino-Japanese War.

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  Blue Poppies Jonathan Falla
  It is 1950. In a remote Tibeten village on the border with China, a young outcast falls in love with a Scottish radio worker. The invasion by the Chinese threatens to tear their love apart.
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  George Forrest: Plant Hunter Brenda McLean
  This work, published to celebrate the centenary of George Forrest's first setting out for the mountains of Yunnan, brings the man to life, drawing on his own letters and those of his contemporaries. It tells of Forrest's adventures and his lengendary escape from death at the hands of warring lamas.
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  The High Road To China: George Bogle, The Panchen Lama And The First British Expedition To Tibet Kate Teltscher
  Teltscher tells the story of the British attempt to reach the Qianlong emperor's ear, a narrative of two journeys across some of the harshest and highest terrain in the world: Bogle's mission and the Panchen Lama's visit to China, on which British hopes were hung. She also reconstructs the meeting of four different worlds.
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  Spy On The Roof Of The World Sydney Wignall
  Spy on the Roof of the World tells the true story of a secret expedition undertaken during the mid-1950s, aided by a faction within the Indian army, into newly-conquered Tibet. The author's story is one of brutality, hardship and courage.