Kong University Press, 2006) Life and times of Crow. Through the Looking Glass: China Foreign Journalists From Opium War to Mao (Hong Kong University Press, 2009) The Old Shanghai A-Z (Hong Kong University Press, 2010) Midnight in Peking: How the Murder of a Young Englishwoman Haunted the Last Days of Old China (Beijing: Viking, 2011; London: Viking, 2012; New York: Penguin Books, Rev., 2012). . The Badlands: Decadent Playground of Old Peking (Asia and Australia: Penguin Specials, 2012; London, New York: Penguin Specials, 2013) North Korea: State of Paranoia (London: Zed Books, 2014). . City of Devils: The Two Men Who Ruled the Underworld of Old Shanghai (London: riverrun, 2018; New York: Picador, 2018). . Co-authored works One Billion Shoppers: Accessing Asia's Consuming Passions After the Meltdown (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1998) – with Matthew Crabbe Oil on Water: Tankers, Pirates and the Rise of China (Zed Books, 2010) – with Sam Chambers Fat China: How Expanding Waistlines are Changing a Nation (Anthem Press, 2010) – with Matthew Crabbe References "Paul French". Melbourne Writers Festival. "Paul French". Penguin Books Australia. "Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking, answers Ten Terrifying Questions". Booktopia Blog. 11 August 2011. External links Midnight in Peking website China Rhyming Jonathan Spence, "Who Killed Pamela in Peking?" (Review of Midnight in Peking), New York Review of Books 21 March 2013. 1966 births Alumni of the University of Glasgow British historians Living people People from the London Borough of Enfield