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  1. 'China Stands Up': Maoist Peasant and English Leveller

    4/4 Patrick Wright looks at the reactions of artists Stanley Spencer and Paul Hogarth to China

  2. 'Dumb-Walking-Man': Chiang Yee, the Silent Traveller

    3/4 Patrick Wright discusses a rare Chinese book about London and the English Lakes.

  3. Limehouse Chinatown: The Opium Wars Brought Home

    2/4 Investigating the fabled loft of Dr Fu Manchu at the time of the 'Yellow Peril' scare.

  4. The Great Exhibition and London's Chinese Junk

    1/4 Patrick Wright on the British versus Chinese 'primitivism' in the 1850s.