“Sir, – As an Irish academic lecturing this year in two leading Chinese universities (Peking University and Beijing Foreign Studies University), I find the most recent Ross O’Carroll-Kelly piece featuring an eight-year-old exchange student named Pang offensive (October 10th). The portrayal of her as as a smoking, foul-mouthed, and violent juvenile is odd in itself …” (more)
[Jerusha McCormack, Irish Times, 17 October]