Background
Wintle, Justin Beecham was born on May 24, 1949 in London. Son of Francis Julian and Anne (Senior-Ellis) Wintle.
(Lured towards the South Pacific by a chance remark made i...)
Lured towards the South Pacific by a chance remark made in Hong Kong, Wintle describes his journey from Thailand to the Solomon Islands, including his endeavours to research AIDS, his attempt to interview Queen Sirikit and his visit to the Canadian abbot of a Buddhist monastery.
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(Our perceptions of Vietnam are heavily determined by Amer...)
Our perceptions of Vietnam are heavily determined by American cinema. Films like "Platoon" and "Apocalypse Now" perpetuate a stereotyped image of the country as a place of war, as an assault course for the American psyche. But what is Vietnam really like? 15 years after the fall of Saigon, Justin Wintle went there to find out. Wintle's journey turned into a double combat: state propaganda had to be resisted as firmly as Western misconceptions - and the authorities were determined Wintle should not leave without appreciating their view of history. He met a plethora of old revolutionaries, including General Diap and Le Duc Tho. He went down the tunnels at Cu Chi, and he visited My Lai. He also visited Binh Hoa, the site of another, unreported massacre. In Saigon, in the "little room of atrocities", he was shown deformed foetuses, the latest victims of US chemical warfare. For a while he was seduced; squatting in a high mountain, Wintle imagined what it must have been like to be a Viet Cong guerilla. His minders became his brothers, their innumerable hangers-on (most memorably at one stage of the journey, the five aunts of one of his drivers) his family. But like all romances, this one is also fraught with disappointment. The Confucian-Leninist regime is shown to be an outmoded ideology that holds back a brave and enterprising people. Drifting between sadness and horror, lyricism and humour, Wintle's journal aims to strip away the myths of Vietnam, and set the country before us in a totally new light.
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(This is an assessment of the life and work of Britain's g...)
This is an assessment of the life and work of Britain's greatest living poet, the Nobel nominee R.S. Thomas. The book aims to dispel the mystery of the the Welshman, to scrutinize his activities, friendships, preaching, essays and beliefs, to see how they are reflected in his poetry.
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Wintle, Justin Beecham was born on May 24, 1949 in London. Son of Francis Julian and Anne (Senior-Ellis) Wintle.
Bachelor honours, Oxford University, England.
Visiting fellow School Design Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 1998, 99.
(Lured towards the South Pacific by a chance remark made i...)
(This is an assessment of the life and work of Britain's g...)
(Our perceptions of Vietnam are heavily determined by Amer...)
Chairman Binh Hoa Massacre Trust Fund, 1987—2000. Executive director Dukeswood Group of Companies. Consultant Inter-Action Trust Ltd.
Married Kimiko Tezuka, November 14, 1984.