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North Korea
Zed Books 2007; US$ 34.95This reissue of Paul French's acclaimed introduction to North Korea provides an up-to-the-minute overview of the politics, economics and history of the DPRK, with added chapters dealing with recent events. A new foreword examines why North Korea remains an issue in world politics and argues that an understanding of the country is more important... more...
Through the Looking Glass
Hong Kong University Press 2009; US$ 32.00The convulsive history of foreign journalists in China starts with the newspapers printed in the European Factories of Canton in the 1820s and ends with the Communist revolution in 1949. more...
Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand
Hong Kong University Press 2006; US$ 35.00The first biography of Carl Crow - one of the best-known and most successful Americans to live and work in Shanghai between the wars. After a successful career as a newspaperman and the proprietor of China's largest advertising agency in the 1930s he went on to write over a dozen books on China including the best selling series of anecdotes of... more...
Midnight in Peking
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 9.99A riveting true-crime tale that presents the thrilling account of a murder in 1937 China that caused an international media sensation Chronicling an incredible unsolved murder, Midnight in Peking captures the aftermath of the brutal killing of a British schoolgirl in January 1937. The mutilated body of Pamela Werner was found at the base... more...
The Old Shanghai A-Z
Hong Kong University Press, HKU 2010; US$ 25.00A unique and a definitive guide to every street in Shanghai and its former allowing historians, researchers, tourists and the just plain curious to navigate the city in its pre-1949 incarnation. This A-Z includes the former International Settlement, French Concession, External Roads area with an extensive index, detailed map and alphabetical entry... more...
Midnight in Peking
Penguin Books Ltd 2012; Not AvailableMidnight in Peking is a gripping true murder mystery by Paul French THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER - AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 'A first-rate murder story, a thrilling narrative. Hurtles along from one cliffhanger to the next' Spectator Peking, 1937: The teenage daughter of a British consul is brutally slaughtered. The police... more...
The Badlands
Penguin Group US 2013; US$ 3.99More tales of intrigue in Old Peking from bestselling author Paul French Through portraits of eight residents of Peking?s infamous Badlands district, Paul French brings the area and 1930s Peking vividly to life. A small warren of narrow hutongs, the Badlands sat just inside the eastern flank of the Tartar Wall, which at that time enclosed the... more...
Early Detection and Cognitive Therapy for People at High Risk of Developing Psychosis
Wiley 2004; US$ 125.00Written with clinicians in mind, this book demonstrates the use of Cognitive Behavior Therapy with individuals who are at risk of developing psychosis. Divided into three parts, the book opens with the background to the clinical trial including the rationale for the early intervention strategy, assessment strategies to identify "at risk" groups, and... more...
Oil on Water
Zed Books 2010; US$ 29.95The movement of oil around the worlds oceans is constantly under enormous pressure, from conflicts between nation states, piracy and climate change. Yet, while the uninterrupted flow of oil is essential to globalization, increasingly so as manufacturing and markets move eastwards to Asia, this threat is largely unreported. Out of sight, out of... more...
400 Million Customers
Earnshaw Books 2008; US$ 7.99Probably the best selling book on doing in business in China ever ? and undoubtedly the best ever written ? Carl Crow?s 400 Million Customers is both amusing and informed. First published in 1937, 400 Million Customers is the distillation of the experiences of one of the most successful foreign businessmen ever to wash up on the China coast. Crow... more...









