In Morgan: a suitable case for treatment (Karel Reisz, 1966; see also here), Morgan’s mother (the magnificent Irene Handl), a 1930s Communist who “refuses to de-Stalinise”, asked for news of her son, exclaims incredulously:

Got a postcard from ‘im, from Greece… I mean, what is there in Greece?

This was pretty much my parents’ attitude to my fieldwork in China.

Here they are paying respects at Marx’s grave: