Download or read book Passport to Peking written by Patrick Wright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This delightfully eclectic book, part comedy, part travelogue, and part cultural history, uncovers the story of the British delegations that were invited to China in 1954 - a full eighteen years before President Nixon's more famous 1972 mission.