Diary - China (May 14th - June 5th, 1981)

Containers:: Box 9 (MS Acc13.104)
Component identifier:: File 4
Content Summary:: The diary was used as material for an essay, The Secret Bird in his collection of essays, Crossing the Gap (Vintage Books, 1987). Christopher Koch was a member of an Australian writer's delegation bought to China as a guest of the Chinese Government. The others were Nicholas Hasluck and Hugh Anderson. Diary also drawn on for background in the novel The Memory Room (Knopf, Random House Australia, 2007)
Immediate source of acquisition:: The initial two instalments of papers were acquired from Christopher Koch in 1981 and 2013. The final instalment was acquired from Koch's publisher, Margaret Connolly, in 2014.

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Parent Terms of Access:: Copying and publishing of unpublished manuscript material is subject to copyright restrictions. For such material, written permission to publish must be obtained from the copyright holder(s). Copying of unpublished material for research purposes is permissible 50 years after the death of the creator of the material.

Location of this collection:: National Library of Australia

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Canberra ACT 2600, Australia