ChinaRhyming
Paul FrenchRecreating Old China
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October 30 2026 - ChinaRhyming - The Tang, the Qing, Shanghai Spies and 1890s Macao
Wednesday, 4th November - The Shanghai Agents, an RAS Beijing Zoom with Heather Salter
A Royal Asiatic Society China Zoom - Author Heather Salter discusses The Shanghai Agents with Paul French - A tale of espionage and counterespionage...
October 27 2026 - ChinaRhyming - From Hebei to Holland - The Journey of One Letter from China in World War one
An interesting letter sent in March 1914 from the Mines de Lincheng (Lincheng Mines Administration - Hebei Province) on the Pékin-Hankow Railway to a Mr Lionel Wiener in Holland. - Post Box 14, Scheveningue (Scheveningen), Hollande. Wiener...
October 21 2026 - ChinaRhyming - The Last Emperor (& the Tang Dynasty) come to the British Library
Dynasties in Dialogue: The Tang, the Qing, and China Today
Friday October 23 - 7:15pm - Eliot room, Knowledge Centre, British Library, London
As it so happens myself and friend Xiaolu Guo have books out at around the same time - an...
October 19 2026 - ChinaRhyming - Remembering Nora Pennett’s Interwar Watercolours of China
Gathering together here a series of watercolours by the British artist Nora Pennett who was, for a dozen years or so, resident in Shanghai between 1924 and 1936. It seems she started her artistic career seriously while in China exhibiting a...
October 14 2026 - ChinaRhyming - Hope Danby’s In Charming Peking (1930) & Her Beijing Life
Remembering Dulcie Hope Danby
Recently came across a delightful copy of In Charming Peking: A Diary of Seven Days Spent in the Old Chinese Capital by Hope Danby with illustrations by Gladys Mary Havers. It was published and printed in 1...
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Return to the City of Darkness - Kowloon Walled City (BBC Radio 3) is now on BBCSounds. My new book The Last Emperor of China: Twilight of the Forbidden City (Elliot & Thompson/St Martin’s Press) out now in the UK/November in the USA
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