in zanzibar cover people celebrate for seven days eid.and can relate to that. it's because people get to meet each other more and they get to socialise more, and the way that eid allows them to do that as well, so you find that crowds of people, hundreds of thousands of people, get together, and just get to know each other and there's a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood again, because of the huge gatherings, getting together and caring and sharing — you know, thatis and caring and sharing — you know, that is something that everybody is looking forward to, because most people suffer here in this country from depression and stress because they are lonely. they are alone. so when you have this, eid keeps coming back again and again, and the main thing about eid is getting together. one imam from leicester speaking to me about the significance of eid. two pandas from a top breeding centre in china have arrived in berlin. they are the latest envoys in what's become known as panda diplomacy. like other jet—setting bears before them, they are

i think that bob, one of the leaders in the zanzibar revolution had studied for a time in china, i do with figures like that in the book. i think this is something that it's to be explored further. there are probably some students in african china. if you really dig into the provincial archives i got into the foreign minister archives easily. some provincial archives are in china but there are some that are very hard, even if you are a chinese citizen, they are hard. for an american scholar, they are especially hard. i think there are things that are for people who can get into some of the archives that i had trouble with. that is definitely a topic that you can do more with. the last question about posters and signs, the chinese foreign does have a lot of pictures, they don't have a lot of propaganda posters. there is actually a propaganda museum in shanghai that has a lot of these propaganda posters if that is what you're looking for. have pictures, they actually wouldn't let me use any of the pictures in my book. i asked them for permission and they said sorry, of course, christian