Moments of Vision [in the author’s own words; Bradley wrote this shortly before his passing.]
 
Moments of Vision: View and Reviews of East Asia is a collection of articles and longer pieces, by the UK-born journalist and novelist Bradley Winterton. It includes accounts of meetings with Iris Murdoch, John Bayley, Jan Morris, Austin Coates and the Dalai Lama, and its locations range from England, Thailand, Hong Kong and Macau to Taiwan, Bali and Vietnam.
 
There are evocations of Wagner’s Ring operas, the English Lake District and historic Macau. There are observations on A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hardy’s poem “Afterwards,” alleged groping on the Hong Kong subway, the drawings of the nineteenth-century Hong Kong artist Chinnery, some of John Bayley’s more outrageous remarks, and possible biological warfare using migrating birds.
 
Among the sources are Asia’s inflight magazines, the South China Morning Post, London’s Times Literary Supplement and Times Educational Supplement, the London Review of Books, the Financial Times, and the Taipei Times. Extracts from previously published work are almost wholly unedited, though there are also a number of items that have never been published before.
 
Together, these items provide a wide range of insights into life in East Asia, from 1986 almost to the present. Nature, theatre, opera and books jostle with meetings with famous people and not a few scandals, or possible scandals. Books predominate, with many book reviews from the Taipei Times occupying the prime position. Altogether, there are few classes of reader to whom this book will not appeal.
 
Bradley Winterton holds a Master’s degree in English Literature from Oxford University and a Master of Philosophy degree in comparative literature from Hong Kong University. He is also the author of a novel, The Mystery Religions of Gladovia.