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Badlands: Penguin Special by Paul French
Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials
An evocative account of the infamous nightlife district of pre-communist Beijing, from the internationally acclaimed author of the book Midnight in Peking. The Badlands, a warren of narrow hutongs in the eastern district of pre-communist Peking, had its heyday in the 1930s. Home to the city's drifters, ...Show more
Betrayal in Paris: How the Treaty of Versailles Led to China's Long Revolution by FRENCH PAUL
Category: History | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
At the conclusion of 'the war to end war', the victors set about redesigning the world map at the Paris Peace Conference. For China, Versailles presented an opportunity to regain territory lost to Japan. Yet, the country was to be severely disappointed. This study explores China's betrayal by the West, ...Show more
Bloody SaturdayShanghai's Darkest Day by Paul French
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Specials Ser.
Saturday, August 14, 1937--that summer Shanghai was expecting to be hit by a typhoon of "violent intensity." The typhoon passed, but what did strike Shanghai was a man-made typhoon of bombs and shrapnel that brought aerial death and destruction such as no city had ever seen before. The clock outside Cat ...Show more
City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir by Paul French
Category: True Crime
1930s Shanghai could give Chicago a run for its money. In the years before the Japanese invaded, the city was a haven for outlaws from all over the world- a place where pasts could be forgotten, fascism and communism outrun, names invented, fortunes made - and lost. 'Lucky' Jack Riley was the most notor ...Show more
City of Devils - The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai by Paul French
Category: True Crime
From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking--winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction--comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made men set against a backdrop of crime and vice in the sprawling badlands o ...Show more
Midnight in Peking by Paul French
Category: True Crime
January, 1937: Peking is a heady mix of privilege and scandal, lavish cocktail bars and opium dens, warlords and corruption, rumours and superstition - and the clock is ticking down on all of it. In the exclusive Legation Quarter, the foreign residents wait nervously for the axe to fall. Japanese troops ...Show more
North Korea: State of Paranoia by Paul French
Category: Politics | Series: Asian Arguments Ser.
Secretive, mysterious, and almost certainly dangerous, North Korea is an object of endless fascination--and worry--for the rest of the world. The world's most inaccessible nuclear power, it retains Gulag-style prison camps, completely blocks Internet access, and forbids citizens to talk to foreigners wi ...Show more
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