In 1974 Roland Barthes travelled in China as part of a small
delegation of distinguished French philosophers and literary
figures. They arrived in China just as the last stage of the
Cultural Revolution was getting underway - the campaign to
criticize Lin Biao and Confucius. While they were welcomed by
writers and academics, the travelers were required to follow a
pre-established itinerary, visiting factories and construction
sites, frequenting shows and restaurants that were the mainstay of
Western visitors to China in the 70s. Barthes planned to return
from the trip with a book on China: the book never materialized,
but he kept the diary notes he wrote at the time. The notes on
things seen, smelled and heard alternate with reflections and
remarks - meditations, critiques or notes of sympathy, an aside
from the surrounding world. Published now for the first time more
than thirty years after the trip, these notebooks offer a unique
portrait of China at a time of turbulence and change, seen through
the eyes of the world s greatest semiotician.
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