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Still Young And Green

John Bayley CHEKHOV ON THE BRITISH STAGE edited by Patrick Miles CUP, £30, pp. 270 hatred of the modern stage receives a good deal of justification and support from this......

Cheerfulness Keeps Breaking In

James Walton SKATER by Mark Swallow Macmillan, f14.99, pp. 207 I n 1990, Mark Swallow's Teaching Little Fang, the story of an Anglophile student in provincial China, was widely......