Paul French

on November 30, 2017

Paul French was born in London and lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. He is the author of a number of books, including Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China, City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir, Carl Crow: A Tough Old China Hand, and Through the Looking Glass: China’s Foreign Journalists from Opium Wars to Mao. Midnight in Peking was a New York Times Bestseller, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and a winner of the Edgar Award. Both Midnight in Peking and City of Devils are currently in development for film. In November 2024, he published Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson.

French has received the Mystery Writers’ of America Edgar award for Best Fact Crime and a Crime Writers’ Association (UK) Dagger award for non-fiction. He studied History, Economics, and Mandarin and has an M.Phil. in Economics from the University of Glasgow.

Jingyu Wan

on November 29, 2017

Jingyu Wan is originally from Jiangxi, China. She is a multimedia journalist and holds a master’s degree in Multimedia Photography & Design from Syracuse University. Her work mainly focuses on minority groups and has been published in the People’s Daily, Fotomen China, and elsewhere. Wan is also an alumni of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Lee Ming-che May Not Have Been Charged under Foreign NGO Law—But His Case Could Still Have a Chilling Effect

By Jessica Batke on November 29, 2017

On November 28, Taiwanese NGO activist Lee Ming-che was sentenced to five years in prison for “subverting state power.” A mainland Chinese citizen, Peng Yuhua, whom Lee’s family says they had not heard of before the trial, was tried with him and sentenced to seven years for the same crime.

Trump Pledges New Wave of 'Major Sanctions' on North Korea After Call with China's Xi

By Simon Denyer on November 29, 2017

President Trump pledged Wednesday that “additional major sanctions” would be imposed on North Korea after Pyongyang's latest intercontinental missile test. Trump’s statement followed a telephone conversation with Chinese President Xi Jinping, whose country is an economic lifeline for North Korea.

Politics
Donald Trump, Xi Jinping, North Korea Sanctions, North Korean Missiles, North Korea Nuclear Test

In China, Fears That New Anticorruption Agency Will Be Above the Law

By Chris Buckley on November 29, 2017

China’s leader, Xi Jinping, is pushing to establish a new anticorruption agency with sweeping powers to sidestep the courts and lock up anyone on the government payroll for months without access to a lawyer — a plan that has met surprisingly vocal opposition from some of the nation’s foremost legal minds.

Law, Politics
Xi Jinping, Anti-Corruption, Courts, Legal System