his diaries kept in spidery handwriting in a series of little black notebooks. This work appears to have been mislaid or otherwise lost, in contrast to his own scrupulous orderliness with papers throughout his working life. The last years were truly a great trial to someone who, not hitherto having known illness, had always administered their affairs with executive dispatch. Editor From 1963 to 1965, Bryan was the founding editor of Arts and Sciences in China, a journal of Chinese studies published in London. Among the members of the Editorial Board were J. D. Bernal, Sir William Empson, Joseph Needham, Sir Herbert Read and Arthur Waley Author Bryan's published works include – The United Nations Need China (1958) China's Taiwan (Britain-China Friendship Association, London, 1959) The World Belongs to All (London, 1960, with Liao Hong Ying ) Li-po Chou's Great Changes in a Mountain Village (translator) (Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1961) The Land and People of China (Macmillan, London, 1964) Cultural Restoration versus Cultural Revolution: A Traditional Cultural Perspective (Foreign Languages Press, Beijing, 1964) Let's Visit China (Macmillan Children's Books, 1983, with Liao Hong Ying) Honours Officer of the Order of the British Empire 1951 Sources Antoniades, Irini Innes Herdan: obituary, The Guardian, 18 June 2008. Bryan, Derek Background to the formation of SACU in 1965, China Now, April 1975. Bryan, Derek Reflections on China, 1933–1999, China in Focus, Issue No. 8, 2000. Gittings, John Derek Bryan: Chinese scholar penalised for his candour, The Guardian, 3 October 2003. References Buchanan, Thomas (2001), The Courage of Galileo: Joseph Needham and the `germ warfare' allegations in the Korean War, History(Historical Association), 86/284, 503–22, esp. fn. 36, 87, 90; the title adopts a phrase from a letter by Liao Hongying Buchanan, Thomas (2012), East Wind: China and the British Left, 1925–1976, Oxford University Press. , Coates, Patrick Devereux (1988), The China consuls: British consular officers, 1843–1943, Oxford University Press, esp. p. 541. Debbage, Susan and Arrowsmith, Deborah (2012), Gildencroft: Let their lives speak, Moofix, esp. pp. 81–90, with photograph of gravestone, p. 89. Ferry, Georgina (2000), Dorothy Hodgkin: a life, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, , Herdan, (Estelle Muriel) Innes (1996), Liao Hongying: Fragments of a Life, Larks Press. , Jackson, (Estelle Muriel) Innes (1938), China only yesterday, Faber and Faber. Laurence, Patricia Ondek (2003), Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes: Bloomsbury, Modernism, and China, Univ of South Carolina Press, esp. pp. 73–75. , Winchester,