Elsie CHOLMONDELEY (aka Fairfax-Cholmondely) [????-1984] | Gwulo: Old Hong Kong

Elsie CHOLMONDELEY (aka Fairfax-Cholmondely) [????-1984]

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Submitted by Admin on Sat, 2012-04-07 09:58
Names
Given: 
Elsie
Family: 
Cholmondeley
Alias / nickname: 
Fairfax-Cholmondely
Sex: 
Female
Status: 
Deceased
Death
Date: 
1984-09-24
Tags: 
WW2: Interned at Stanley Camp
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Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2012-04-07 13:50.

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.

Submitted by brian edgar on Sat, 2012-04-07 16:31.

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)