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Chinese

James Cameron The Gate of Heavenly Peace Jonathan D. Spence (Faber £11.50) T ien An Men, the Gate of Heavenly Peace, is for anyone who knows China the centre and symbol of what,......

Books

The mad governess Peter Quennell The Wider Sea: a Life of John Ruskin John Dixon Hunt (Dent £15.95) he world, declared a book-critic in 1 1862, reviewing a series of......