Meeting Across the River « witless in wuhan

I also noticed the driver had a book on Jiang Jieshi (or Chiang Kai Shek if you happened to study O level history with the modern China option back in the late 70s). I seem to recall that old Jiang wasn't exactly the flavour of the month over here, ... By 7pm, when the student had failed to turn up, I gave them a call and found they had cleared off with a friend who was also attending the meeting and told me I could get something to eat in the hotel restaurant. ...