'My First Trip to China'

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Melanie Kirkpatrick, The Forbidden Journey; Old China hands recall their inaugural trips to the Middle Kingdom, back when 'Maoist correctness' still reigned. Wall Street Journal, Mar 4, 2013
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB ... 14181449620060.html
(book review on Kin-Ming Liu (ed), My First Trip to China; Scholars, diplomats and journalists reflect on their first encounters with China. East Slope Publishing Ltd (HK), 2013)

Note:
(a) Kin-Ming LIU  廖 建明
(b) Jonathan Mirsky. China File, Asia Society, undated.
http://www.chinafile.com/contributor/Jonathan%20Mirsky
(c) Ms Kirkpatrick wrote, "The China-bound traveler would board a train in Kowloon that carried him to the village of Lo Wu in the New Territories. There he would disembark and walk across a rickety wooden bridge to a farming village on the Chinese side of the border. (Today that village has been transformed into the dazzling industrial city of Shenzhen.)"

It is confusing, because she referred to both (one in HK and the other in Guangdong) as villages.
. There is Lo Wu on both side of the border. When
(i) Lo Wu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lo_Wu
(of New Territories, Hong Kong; sections 1 History and 2 Location)
(ii) Luohu District
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luohu_District
(of City of Shenzhen; Luohu district was established in October 1979. It is the first district in Shenzhen City)

(d) Professor Delia Davin, Honorary Fellow, White Rose East Asia Centre(UK) undated.  
http://www.wreac.org/people/delia-davin

The web page says, "Visit 'my staff profile at the University of Leeds' for the most detailed and up-to-date version of my profile."

The link was deactivated, because she is retired from the latter. See

Retirements confirmed: Professor Delia Davin. The Reporter (The University of Leeds newsletter), Nov 29, 2004
http://reporter.leeds.ac.uk/503/davin.htm
("Delia Davin is perhaps one of few professors to have left school aged only 15. She completed her A levels through evening classes and then, aged 19, went to teach in China. She returned in 1965 to study in the new Department of Chinese at Leeds")

(e) For WJF Jenner, see William John Francis Jenner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_John_Francis_Jenner
(1940- )
(f) Helmut Sohmen
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Sohmen
(1939- ; Austrian; married Anna Pui Hing PAO, whom he had met while studying in Canada; formerly managing director of Dragonair)

* Helmut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut
(g) Steven M Mosher
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_W._Mosher
(is the president of Virginia-based Population Research Institute, a pro-life organization; [in 1983] Mosher was expelled from Stanford University's PhD program after publishing an article in Taiwan about his experiences in Guangdong)
(h) William H Overholt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Overholt
(1945- ; as Managing Director and Head of Research at BankBoston's regional headquarters in Singapore)