Baibing

'They're always for the people, Baibing, it was the People's Liberation Army that murdered the people in Tiananmen Square, their own army, surely you remember that.'

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

He is safe and among friends at the monastery and you can say, if you want to be charitable, that I've completed the mission, the objective of which was to get Dr Xingyu Baibing out of Hong Kong.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

'When they came for you at the monastery, Baibing, was Mr Trotter there?'

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

Movement suddenly at the desk as the officer got to his feet and another one came up and the plainclothes supervisor nodded and turned away and the man from the Bureau swung his head and looked at me with his mouth relaxed and I saw Dr Xingyu Baibing leave the desk and pick up his bag and walk slowly away, folding his papers and putting them into the pocket of his sheepskin coat.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

'Then you can say it again if we can get you there, and not just on the campus, Baibing, but right across China.'

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

I had expected trouble going through Hong Kong airport, because that had been where the objective for Bamboo was to have been completed: to get Dr Xingyu Baibing out of Hong Kong.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

My head was clearing now, by necessity: I had to reach Xingyu Baibing by noon and we were running it close because I couldn't take the taxi all the way, I'd have to get him to drop me off half a mile short at a different monastery, the hills were full of them, some where tourists could go.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

'Baibing, you're a man of enormous intelligence and you have got to get rid of the idea that Communism in your country will ever see its people with anything more to their name but a half-empty rice bowl.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

It was on that day that we had to get Dr Xingyu Baibing readied for the TV cameras instead.

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991

'You help to put that man in power, Baibing, and what will he do?'

Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991