ChinaRhyming
Paul FrenchRecreating Old China
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October 9 2026 - ChinaRhyming - The Incredible (but dubious) Tale of Christian West of Banff, Female Captain of a China Trade Clipper....
A Curiosity Discovered….
In an Edinburgh used bookshop I picked up a copy of The China Run: Being the Biography of a Great-Grandmother (Hodder and Stoughton), a 1948 book purporting to be a biographical novella by the Scottish writer Ne...
October 2 2026 - The Last Emperor on the Big Screen & Who Was Isabel Ingram...
The Last Emperor Screening and Q&A - Odyssey Film Festival 2026, London
I’ll just quote the festival blurb below. It’s October 6, the Everyman King’s Cross, 12.30pm - Book your ticket via Everyman Cinema
SPECIAL GUEST | Paul French joi...
October 2 2026 - ChinaRhyming - Ballard’s Shanghai, the Hongkou Ghetto and some events this month
Remembering JG Ballard and his Shanghai…
I’ve taken an article I wrote on JG Ballard and the pre-war/wartime Shanghai he grew up in back when I published my book City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir. However, China Books Review decided it w...
September 26 2026 - ChinaRhyming - Got over £6,500,000 to spare? You could buy Reginald Johnston’s Scottish Island...
What You Get…
What expat returning from a few decades in China doesn’t buy themselves a private Scottish island….? Edinburgh-born Reginald Johnston was a diplomat, a private tutor, a professor of Chinese at SOAS, and best selling memoir...
September 24 2026 - ChinaRhyming - Wigtown Book Festival & The Chelsea History Festival
Scotland’s Book Town - Monday, September 28 - 1.30pm
Attending the Wigtown Book Festival is always a pleasure - a visit to Scotland’s official Book Town in Dumfries and Galloway, southwest Scotland with over 20 book-related businesses a...
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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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