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Author Paul French on Shanghai's Laowai Gangsters & Beijing's Sordid Past

We chat with French about the new book, his collection of rare China photos and the laowai of decades past.

by Noelle Mateer, 07 March 2018

An Armchair Traveller's History of Beijing

A bluffer's guide to the capital's past.

by Oscar Holland, 03 December 2016

Still Writing Aged 94 – Renowned Chinese Author Yang Jiang

We take a look at author and translator Yang Jiang who once lived in Dongluojuan Hutong.

by Alistair Baker-Brian, 29 March 2021

Strangers on the Praia: Refugees and Resistance in Wartime Macao

Paul French weaves together the stories of those Jewish refugees who moved on from wartime Shanghai to seek a possible route to freedom via the Portuguese colony.

by Paul French, 04 August 2020

PHOTOS: Guangzhou's Fading African District

This photographer snapped portraits in Xiaobei without realizing he was documenting history.

by Jocelyn Richards, 27 April 2016

A brief history of Japanese officials making offensive statements about WWII sex slaves

China has reacted angrily to a comment by the new head of Japanese public broadcaster NHK dismissing his country's use of forced sex slaves (or 'comfort women') during WWII.

by James Griffiths, 28 January 2014