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Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand - The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai

Carl Crow - A Tough Old China Hand - The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai

The Life, Times, and Adventures of an American in Shanghai

by Paul French
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/09/2006
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The first biography of Carl Crow - one of the best-known and most successful Americans to live and work in Shanghai between the wars. After a successful career as a newspaperman and the proprietor of China's largest advertising agency in the 1930s he went on to write over a dozen books on China including the best selling series of anecdotes of his time in Shanghai: Four Hundred Million Customers.
ISBN:
9789622098022
9789622098022
Category:
Biography: business & industry
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-09-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Hong Kong University Press
Country of origin:
Hong Kong
Pages:
324
Dimensions (mm):
236x158x23mm
Weight:
0.62kg
Paul French

Born in London and educated there and in Glasgow, Paul French has lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. He is a widely published analyst and commentator on China and has written a number of books, including a history of foreign correspondents in China and a biography of the legendary Shanghai adman, journalist and adventurer Carl Crow.

His book Midnight in Peking was a New York Times Bestseller, a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, and will be made into an international miniseries by Kudos Film and Television, the UK creators of Spooks and Life on Mars.

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