BTW, when recommending Bo Yang’s book “The Ugly Chinaman,” I should have

added a warning not to let a Chinese person see you reading it. They hate

that. “It’s OK for us to say these things about ourselves, but…” etc.

etc.

A Chinese person not a million miles from my own household caught me reading

it and expressed fierce indignation. It was several hours before I stopped

hearing about the Opium Wars, burning of the Summer Palace,

extraterritoriality, etc., etc.