ChinaRhyming
Paul FrenchRecreating Old China
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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...
September 21 2026 - ChinaRhmying - Exclusive: 84 Years Ago American Journalist & POW Bernard Covit Arrived in Japanese-Occupied Shanghai...
This is the January 29, 1944 edition of Liberty magazine. Though published in 1944 this account covers events around September 1942 to February 1943, obviously after Pearl Harbour and the declaration of war between Japan and the USA. The Ja...
September 17 2026 - ChinaRhyming - Those Romantic Foreigners of Old Peking - Anne Duffield’s The Lacquer Couch, 1928
“And she found life in Peking increasingly charming. The easy, lazy existence, the unobtrusive but very grateful luxury, the warmth and sunshine, the careless, friendly manner in which everyone received her were mildly intoxicating to the s...
September 18 2026 - ChinaRhyming - Peking British Legation Guard Royal Army Medical Corps & an RAS Zoom
The Royal Army Medical Corps at the British Legation Peking, 1925-1926
Quite a while back in the early 2000s I came across this tapestry at an auction. It is from the Peking British Legation Guard Royal Army Medical Corps, c.1925-1926....
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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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