Author Paul French publishes this month his next book on North Korea, North Korea: State of Paranoia: A Modern History. In the Guardian an extract where he describes a normal day in the life at its capital Pyongyang.Read More →
The population bubble created by Mao Zedong is becoming a wave of pensioners, as China’s current population – limited by a one-child policy – might not be able to sustain that grey gulf. Analyst Paul French takes a peek at the countries demographic abyss for the EastAsiaForum.Read More →
Taking on the Japanese market is not easy for anybody, and certainly not for Chinese. But Shiatzy Chen, a luxury fashion brand from Taiwan with a 35-year history, seems to be making all the right moves, says retail analyst Paul French in the Women’s Wear Daily.Read More →
Innovation and brand building are high on China’s official agenda. But without the necessary freedom, creativity might be an illusion, warns author Paul French in the Guardian.Read More →
China consumers are outspending the moderate GDP growth, but underlying changing undermine the big players in retail, as the sales increasingly go to the little guys, including e-commerce, writes retail analyst Paul French in the China Economic Review.Read More →
Foreign fast food chains like McDonalds and KFC are wildly popular in China, but domestic chains failed to have a similar success. Retail analyst Paul French explores in Foreign Policy why his favorite Real Kung Fu restaurant has only a few hundred outlets, while foreign competition has many thousands.Read More →
Fast urbanization often leads to stressful lives, of people living on the edge. But it can be different, author Paul French discovered at he visited Yichang, Hubei province. A relaxed urbanization in a city of 6.5 million, described in the China Economic Review. Read More →
Award winning author Paul French explains how to pitch your China book to publishers, and – even more important – which books on China you might as well not write anymore, for the Asia SocietyRead More →
Celebrity author Paul French flew out in person from Shanghai to receive in New York the prestigious Edgar Best Fact Crime award for his book “Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China. Report from CSmonitor.Read More →
“A chronicler of China’s seedy past,” author Paul French is called in a raving review in The Atlantic. His latest book “Midnight in Peking” became a candidate for the Edgar Award in the “Best Fact Crime” category.Read More →
North Korea has become an abberation of history, although currently a pretty dangerous one. Historian Paul French explains at the BBC how the isolated country has become a global liabilityRead More →
China has a real first lady, now Peng Liyuan joined president Xi Jinping on his first travels abroad. Author Paul French looks in the Foreign Policy Magazine at the new feature in how China’s leadership is presenting herself to the world. Read More →