Name Paul French Role Author | Education University of Glasgow | |
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Awards Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best History & Biography Books Midnight in Peking: How the, North Korea: State of P, Fat China: How Expandin, North Korea: The Paranoid, Through the Looking | ||
Danwei interview with paul french author of through the looking glass
Paul French (born 27 August 1966) is a British author of books about modern Chinese history and contemporary Chinese society including Midnight in Peking.
Contents
- Danwei interview with paul french author of through the looking glass
- Midnight in peking a conversation with author paul french
- Biography
- Journalism and publishing
- Midnight in Peking
- Co authored works
- Sole authored works
- References
Midnight in peking a conversation with author paul french
Biography
French was born in the London Borough of Enfield and went to Raglan Junior School and Edmonton County School, North London. He gained an M.Phil from the University of Glasgow and studied Chinese at the City Literary Institute. After university French worked briefly for Time Out magazine and Euromonitor in London before relocating to Shanghai and co-founding the London, Shanghai and Kuala Lumpur based independent research firm Access Asia that specialises in analysing Chinese consumer and retail markets. In September 2011 Access Asia was acquired by the London-based market research company Mintel. French is now a full-time author based in London.
Journalism and publishing
French was a regular columnist for the China Economic Quarterly and the China Economic Review as well as being a regular columnist for and the China Editor of Ethical Corporation magazine. In the past French has contributed to Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, South China Morning Post, Shanghai Daily, The Guardian, The Cleaver Quarterly and the The Diplomat.
French is a regular contributor to the UK's Real Crime magazine.
As a regular book reviewer French has contributed to the (British) Literary Review, The Washington Post, The Asian Review of Books and the Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also the author of the fortnightly "Crime and the City" column for Literary Hub.
French has also made literary contributions to the Asia Literary Review and Cha: An Asian Literary Journal.
He is also a former board member of the Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club and a member of the Korea Research Hub (KRH) based within Leeds and Sheffield universities. French was also a member of the editorial advisory board for Anthem Press's ‘China in the Twenty First Century’ series and the Honorary Research and Publications Director for the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland – China Branch. In 2011 French launched the Asian Arguments series of books for Zed Booksacting as the Series Editor.
French is also the author of the blog China Rhyming: A gallimaufry of random China history and research interests.
Midnight in Peking
Midnight in Peking is French's most commercially successful title. It has appeared on numerous best-seller lists around the world won a number of awards: the 2013 Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category the 2013 Crime Writers' Association CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction the 2012 Australian Book Industry Awards – International Success of the Year nominated for the 2013 Macavity Awards – Best Mystery Non-Fiction
Midnight in Peking was also a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week
Kudos Film and Television are currently developing the book into a television drama with a script by Richard Warlow (creator, writer and Showrunner of Ripper Street).