Photocopy. TL. [Hetta Empson], at 11 Tung Kao Fang, [Peking (Beijing)] to Chris [Zilliers?]
- Reference No:
- U DEN/5/50
- Dates:
- 28 Aug 1949
- Description:
- Vivid description of the Chinese marching in and taking over the city; short Mongolian ponies and Genghis Khan; their lives remaining unchanged after the takeover; the students getting excited and restless and the freedom in her classes to speak and read Marxist material; her teaching work; news about the Empson family; he asks about his own children; complaining that the children were taught 'Hail Mary's' at their French Catholic School; her battles with the Chinese; and the Kuomintang and US blockade. Written in Afrikaans
- Format:
- Archive Item
- Extent:
- 1 item
- Language:
- Access Conditions:
- Access will be granted to any accredited reader
- Repository:
- Hull University Archives
- Collection:
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Papers of Sir William Empson and Hetta, Lady Empson
