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119:, continuing until 1980. Wilson had suffered a serious illness during his early travelling years and in later life this led to his posture becoming more and more stooped. However he continued writing well into the 2000s, turning his attention mostly to the Indian subcontinent, but this work appears to remain unpublished. He died in hospital in January 2011. His wife Sally was also in hospital at the time (she too died a few months later) and his death passed unnoticed by the media. 24: 92:
where he remained until 1947 when he was called up for National Service and this was followed by his degree course at Oxford. In 1952 he entered International House, Berkeley California studying law. In 1953 he followed this with extensive travels in Southeast Asia before returning to live in
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Dick Wilson (he used the familiar form of his name throughout his professional life) was born in Epsom, Surrey the son of Ernest Garratt Wilson and Eileen Olive Ruscoe. The family lived at nearby Sutton but in 1939 moved to Guildford where Dick entered the
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He returned to live in London and became largely a freelance author. With his wife Sally he moved into a detached Georgian house in Grove Lane, Camberwell and they adopted two children, Emma and Ben. The first of his many books on China,
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in Hong Kong as Editor in 1958. He remained in that post until 1964 in which year he was awarded, jointly with Kayser Sung, the Magsaysay award for journalism.
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A Bank for Half the World. The Story of the Asian Development Bank 1966–1986 (1987)
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Japan in Britain – Partners and Competitors British Windows on Japan
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The Long March 1935: the epic of Chinese Communism's survival (1971)
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Which Yet Survive: Impressions of Friends, Family and Encounters
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When Tigers Fight, The Sino-Japanese War 1937–45 (1982)
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Another Bite at the Cherry, The European View of Japan
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Mao Tse-tung in the Scales of History (editor) (1977)
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