Rediscovering British literature

Original manuscripts of works by George Byron, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf and Charles Lamb are on show in East China. Deng Zhangyu reports.

The late Chinese poet and writer, Mu Xin (1927-2011), said British poet George Byron was like his brother and praised him as "a hero" and "the strongest voice in human civilization", according to The Memoir of Literature, a book comprising Mu's lectures on world literature in New York over five years.

Now, the British lord is having a "dialogue" with his Chinese admirer - through their manuscripts - at the Mu Xin Art Museum in Mu's hometown of Wuzhen in East China's Zhejiang province.