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Isabel Hilton

Isabel Hilton is a London based writer and broadcaster. She is founder and editor of chinadialogue, an independent, non-profit organization based in London, Beijing and San Francisco. She is a columnist for the London Guardian. She first appeared in the magazine with ‘The General’  in Granta 31 in 1990.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

After the Olympics Left

Various Contributors

‘Once I came home at the end of August, it was as if nothing had ever happened. Indeed, nothing had.‘

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

1911, The Other Revolution

Isabel Hilton

‘Anniversaries, of course, can be a two-edged sword: they invite historical reappraisal.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

Greenland

Isabel Hilton

‘Human settlement never seemed so fragile.’

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition padlock

Made in China

Isabel Hilton

‘Visiting a factory was one thing; working in one quite another.’

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The Enduring General

Isabel Hilton

‘Dictators tend to fret about history.’

Essays & Memoir | Issue 73
Essays & Memoir | Issue 73

The Lost City

Isabel Hilton

‘There is nobody to blame but the Communist Party. They had absolute control during the fifty years it took to destroy Beijing, and they had the chance to develop a modern, civilized city.’

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 73 padlock

The General

Isabel Hilton

‘The kitchen telephone would ring and it would be Gustavo Stroessner, the General's son, bellowing in that strange accent down a fuzzy line from Brazil, like an unruly fictional character nagging for a larger part in the plot.’

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