Travels in China collects the diaries that Roland Barthes kept during a three-week tour of the People’s Republic, then in the throes of the Cultural Revolution, during April and May 1974. Barthes travelled there as part of a group from the avant-garde journal Tel Quel, comprising Philippe Sollers, Julia Kristeva and Marcelin Pleynet, as well as the philosopher and editor François Wahl.
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