Dick Wilson (writer)
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Richard Garratt Wilson 29 November 1928 - January 2011
Life and Work
Dick Wilson (he used the familiar form of his name throughout his professional life) was born in Epsom, Surrey the son of Ernest Garratt Wilson and Eileen Olive Ruscoe. The family lived at nearby Sutton but in 1939 removed to Guildford where Dick entered the Royal Grammar School. Two years later in 1941 he was sent to Cranleigh School. At 18 he was called up for National Service and this was followed by his degree course at Oxford. In 1952 he entered International House, Berkely California studying law [1]. In 1953 he followed this with extensive travels in Southeast Asia before returning to live in London. He now worked for the Financial Times for four years before joining the Far Eastern Economic Review as Editor in 1958, remaining in that post until 1964. He returned to live in London and now became essentially a freelance author. With his wife Sally he moved into a detached Georgian house in Grove Lane, Camberwell and they adopted two children, Emma and Ben. The first of his many books on China, A Quarter of Mankind, was published in 1966.
Publications
A Quarter of Mankind (1966)
Asia Awakes (1970)
The Long March 1935: the epic of Chinese Communism's survival (1971)
East Meets west - Singapore (1971)
The Future Role of Singapore (1972)
The Neutralization of South East Asia (1975)
Mao Tse-tung in the Scales of History (editor) (1977)
Mao, The People's Emperor (1979)
When Tigers Fight, The Sino-Japanese War 1937-45 (1982)
Chou, The Story of Zhou Enlai 1898-1976 (1984)
Another Bite at the Cherry, The European View of Japan
The Sun at Noon, An Anatomy of Modern Japan (1986)
A Bank for Half the World. The Story of the Asian Development Bank 1966-1986 (1987)
Hong Kong! Hong Kong! (1990)
China's Revolutionary War (1991)
Japan In Britain - Partners and Competitors British Windows on Japan
China: the big Tiger. A Nation Awakes (1996)
With Luo Zewen, J.P. Drege and H. Delahaye: The Great Wall (1981)
With Elliott Kulick: Thailand's Turn: Profile of a new dragon (1992)
With Matthew Grenier: Chinese Communism (1992)