This week on the Sinica Podcast, Kaiser and Jeremy chat with Paul French, the best-selling author of Midnight in Peking. Paul has just written an outstanding new book called City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir, in which he tells a captivating story of two foreigners rising to prominence through conducting shady business in the underworld of Shanghai in the 1930s โ a chaotic yet fascinating period, when the city was still known as the Paris of the Orient, leading up to the bleak realities of the war with Japan.
Recommendations:
Paul:ย A Killing Winterย and A Spring Betrayal, two crime novels written by British author Tom Callaghan. Also, Hidden Man, a new movie directed by Chinese award-winning filmmaker Jiang Wen ๅงๆ.
Kaiser:ย The Anatomy of Fascism,ย by Robert O. Paxton.
Jeremy:ย Jo Nesbรธ, Norwayโs best-selling crime writer, whose notable books include The Snowman, The Thirst, and The Redbreast.
