Biography: historical, political & military
Description
New York Times bestselling author Paul French (Midnight in Peking, City of Devils) returns to the Chinese capital to tell 18 true stories of fascinating people who visited the city in the first half of the 20th century.
From the ultra-wealthy Woolworths heiress Barbara Hutton and her husband the Prince Mdivani, to the poor “American girl” Mona Monteith who worked in the city as a prostitute; from socialite Wallis Simpson and novelist JP Marquand, who held court on the rooftop of the Grand Hôtel de Pékin, to Hollywood screenwriter Harry Hervey, who sought inspiration walking atop the Tartar Wall; from Edgar and Helen Foster Snow – Peking’s ‘It’ couple of 1935 – to Martha Sawyers, who did so much to aid China against Japan in World War II; Destination Peking brings a lost pre-communist era back to life.
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Endorsements
“Paul French resurrects a Peking that was filled with glitter as well as evil, but was never known for being dull.” – The Economist
Reviews
https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2021/04/destination-peking-by-paul-french-/
https://www.chinasource.org/resource-library/blog-entries/destination-peking/
Author Biography
Paul French was born in London, educated there and in Glasgow, and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times bestseller, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a Mystery Writers’ of America Edgar award winner for Best Fact Crime and a Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Dagger award for non-fiction. Stories from Destination Peking have been serialised on RTHK Radio 3.
Blacksmith Books
Blacksmith Books is an English-language publishing house based in Hong Kong and distributed throughout all the parts of the world that we can reach. Our focus is on non-fiction -- culture, memoir, travel, biography, history, business, photography -- with a Hong Kong or Chinese angle. We also publish children's fiction with local or regional themes.
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- Publisher Blacksmith Books
- ISBN/Identifier 9789887963967
- FormatPaperback
- Pages376
- ReadershipGeneral
- Publish StatusPublished
- Copyright Year2021
- Illustration80+ black-and-white photos
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