English radical who eventually married Israel Epstein. She renounced her passport and lived long-term in Communist China as a 'foreign expert'. During the Cultural Revolution she took part in the sacking of the British Embassy in Beijing and danced up and down in her patent leather brogues on a picture of Queen Elizabeth 11. (Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong, 372).
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Sometimes known as Elsie
Sometimes known as Elsie Fairfax-Cholmondely.
English radical who eventually married Israel Epstein. She renounced her passport and lived long-term in Communist China as a 'foreign expert'. During the Cultural Revolution she took part in the sacking of the British Embassy in Beijing and danced up and down in her patent leather brogues on a picture of Queen Elizabeth 11. (Philip Snow, The Fall of Hong Kong, 372).
Was probably one of those who planned to escape with Gwen Priestwood before the Allied civilians were sent to Stanley. (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/stanley_camp/message/1433
See also Chronology, March 19.
Fell from favour during the
Fell from favour during the latter part of the Cultural Revolution and was sent to prison.
Died September 24, 1984.
Israel Epstein: My China Eye: Memoirs of Jew and a Journalist (2005)