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The Man in the Middle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 February 2009

Dick Wilson
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When David Wilson was appointed editor, one of the best-known American sinological professors who knew both of us wrote to congratulate me, saying I had the ideal qualifications for the job. But I was surprised all the same when my name was put forward to succeed David in the editorial chair. He had made it such a distinctively academic journal, with far more footnotes and those more abstruse, than Roderick MacFarquar ever provided. The idea seemed to me a bit out of character. I had some good degrees, it was true, and I had in early days produced a few learned legal articles with all those footnotes. But I had used my degrees to stray from the legal path into journalism and writing books about East Asia.

Type
China, China Studies and The China Quarterly: A Symposium of Editorial Reflections on the Occasion of the 35th Anniversary of The China Quarterly
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The China Quarterly , Volume 143 , September 1995 , pp. 682 - 684
Copyright
Copyright © The China Quarterly 1995

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