Paul French

Jan 10, 2025 | focus.cbbc.org | Paul French

10 Moving goods around has been one of the great challenges for domestic and foreign business in China since the beginning of the country’s reform and opening up in 1979. Getting your product inland, down to consumers in lower tiers, into the countryside, to the far west or the south has been a process that had to begin virtually from scratch. Refrigerated trucks, air and rail freight, and just-in-time delivery are challenges for everyone from milk producers to steel companies.

Nov 26, 2024 | chinafile.com | Paul French |Jeremy Goldkorn

Paul French is a prolific author of books on pre-revolutionary 20th Century China and the stories of foreigners who lived and worked there, including the bestselling true-crime history, Midnight in Peking. His work is based on traditional historical research, his own experiences living in Shanghai for around two decades, and correspondence and conversations with people who lived in China, and their family members.

Nov 19, 2024 | focus.cbbc.org | Paul French

4 It’s safe to say that many are amazed (and rather jealous) of the apparent success of China’s e-commerce market and the internet businesses that thrive within it. But how did they do it? New book From Click to Boom (Princeton University Press, 2024) asks that very question – how did the world’s largest e-commerce market highlight a digital path to development?

Oct 24, 2024 | focus.cbbc.org | Paul French

1 Originally from Oxford, Alec Ash is a writer and editor focused on China, where he lived from 2008-2022. His first book, Wish Lanterns: Young Lives in New China, was published in 2017. Feeling burnt out, he decided to move to the more peaceful province of Dali in Yunnan to experience life there. And it was where he found himself living through the Covid-19 pandemic, too.

Oct 19, 2024 | sinicapodcast.com | Paul French

“Through this classic study and other writings and talks, the Crooks provided a positive picture of China to the outside world at a time when Cold War simplifications were the norm.” — Delia Davin, The Guardian “A seminal work, which has been bringing the achievements and challenges of the Chinese agrarian revolution to life for English-speaking readers since 1959.” — The Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) “Specialists may want to compare the nuances of "fan-shenning"...