China and the West

Lowry, Malcolm. Under the volcano. (New York, N.Y. : Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947).
Sekundärliteratur
The Malcolm Lowry Project: Under the Volcano - University of Otago
http://www.otago.ac.nz/englishlinguistics/english/lowry/content/00_annotations/00_pages/ann_frameset4.html.
Hugh's trip to China is modelled on Nordahl Grieg's assignment there in 1937 as a war correspondent, after which he went to Spain. Hugh's role in China, given how recent his visit was, is strangely suppressed. He could not have been with the Communist forces in the isolated northwest, so, like many Western pressmen, he must have been with the Nationalist forces under Chiang-Kai-Shek in the south, who were the main opposition to the invading Japanese (by October, astride all roads to Canton). ‘China’ is a private allusion to Lowry's short story (1934) of that title, on the theme that every man lies imprisoned in his own consciousness: "And you carry your horizon in your pocket wherever you are".