E7 - THE BARTER TRADE: A NOVEL by Chris Ruffle (Earnshaw Books, 2024)

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Chris Ruffle returns to Bookish Asia (we covered his memoir A Decent Bottle of Wine in China in Episode 2) to discuss his autobiographical novel, which is set in Beijing in 1983. After decades of Cold War tensions, China is starting to reopen to the West. In the story, a young Englishman, working at a trading company, finds himself in a budding romance. But there’s a problem; the father of the Chinese woman he likes is asking for access to forbidden foreign technology. The Barter Trade: a Novel by Chris Ruffle (Earnshaw Books, 2024)

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