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Fat China – a chat with Paul French

Paul French tells Jeremy Goldkorn about Fat China, a book he co-authored with Matthew Crabbe subtitled ‘How expanding waistlines are changing a nation’.

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Carl Crow’s The Long Road Back to China

In 1939 Carl Crow – an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese – travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine - ‘the most interesting assignment I have ever been given’.

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I Sailed with Chinese Pirates by Aleko E. Lilius

Earnshaw Books publishes another classic from a forgotten era, this time a foreign journalist’s account with pirates in the early 1900s.

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An interview with Paul French

Danwei’s Jeremy Goldkorn interviews Paul French, author of a new book about foreign journalists in China from 1820 to 1949.

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Foreign journalists in China, from the Opium Wars to Mao

Paul French, author of a book on Carl Crow has written a book about the lives and exploits of foreign journalists reporting from China from the 1820s to 1949.

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Carl Crow’s 400 Million Customers

An excerpt from Carl Crow’s classic 400 Million Customers and an introduction by Paul French.

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Multinationals and their sins in China

Excerpts from an article by Paul French: ‘Why is China different for western brands?’

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Why Tom Doctoroff is wrong about China

A video interview with Paul French about Tom Doctoroff and Carl Crow.

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2008 Beijing International Literary Festival

The schedule for this year’s Beijing Bookworm International Literary Festival is out: Starting on March 6 and running for two weeks, the program includes talks by writers Qiu Xiaolong, Adam Williams, Catherine Sampson, Paul French, Geremie Barmé, Zhang Lijia, James … Continue reading

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