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GLOBALink | Australian scholar's deep bond with China spanning half a century

Australian sociologist David Goodman could always recall the newspaper which was used to wrap up a lunch of fish and chips half a century ago from a Chinese restaurant in Britain, saying that the coincident suggested his connection with China was "meant to be." During the past 40 years, he lived in many Chinese cities, from Suzhou in the east to Lanzhou in the northwest, from Taiyuan in the north to Chengdu in the southwest. "I like to see different parts of China," he said in an interview with Xinhua, adding that the scenery is breathtaking and people are kind. Goodman, 74, said he was from a left-wing family in Britain, where he had relatives who were communists. He remembered that in the 1960s when he studied in the University of Manchester, he once bought lunch from a Chinese restaurant, finding that the fish and chips were wrapped up in the Chinese newspaper Wen Wei Po. He could not read Chinese characters at that time, but was fascinated by the pictures on it. As an undergraduate stude

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