Editing Peter Fleming (writer) (section)

===In Asia===
Fleming travelled from Moscow to Peking via the Caucasus, the Caspian, Samarkand, Tashkent, the [[Turkestan–Siberia Railway|Turksib Railway]] and the [[Trans-Siberian Railway]] to Peking as a special correspondent of ''The Times''. His experiences were recorded in ''[[One's Company]]'' (1934). He then went overland in company of [[Ella Maillart]] from China via [[Tunganistan]] to India on a journey written up in ''[[News from Tartary]]'' (1936). These two books were combined as  ''Travels in Tartary: One's Company and News from Tartary'' (1941). All three volumes were published by Jonathan Cape.

According to Nicolas Clifford, for Fleming China "had the aspect of a comic opera land whose quirks and oddities became grist for the writer, rather than deserving any respect or sympathy in themselves".<ref>Nicholas J. Clifford. ''"A Truthful Impression of the Country": British and American Travel Writing in China, 1880–1949.'' Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,  2001. pp. 132–33</ref> In ''One's Company'', for example, Fleming reports  that Beijing was "lacking in charm", Harbin was a city of "no easily definable character". Changchun was "entirely characterless", and Shenyang was "non-descript and suburban". However, Fleming also provides insights into [[Manchukuo]], the Japanese puppet state in [[Manchuria]], which helped contemporary readers to understand Chinese resentment and resistance, and the aftermath of the [[Kumul Rebellion]]. In the course of these travels Fleming met and interviewed many prominent figures in Central Asia and China, including the [[Hui people|Chinese Muslim]] General [[Ma Hushan]], the Chinese Muslim Taoyin of [[Kashgar]], [[Ma Shaowu]], and [[Puyi]].

Of ''Travels in Tartary'', [[Owen Lattimore]] remarked that Fleming, who "passes for an easy-going amateur, is in fact an inspired amateur whose quick appreciation, especially of people, and original turn of phrase, echoing [[P. G. Wodehouse]] in only a very distant and cultured way, have created a unique kind of travel book". Lattimore added that it "is only in the political news from Tartary that there is a disappointment", as, in his view, Fleming offers "a simplified explanation, in terms of Red intrigue and Bolshevik villains, which does not make sense."<ref>''[[Pacific Affairs]]'' 9.4 (1936): 605–606 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2751207]</ref>

Stuart Stevens retraced Peter Fleming's route and wrote his own travel book.<ref name="Stevens1988">{{cite book|author=Stuart Stevens|title=Night Train to Turkistan: Modern Adventures Along China's Ancient Silk Road|url=https://archive.org/details/nighttraintoturk00stev|url-access=registration|quote=turki merchants gifts.|year=1988|publisher=Atlantic Monthly Press|isbn=978-0-87113-190-4}}</ref>