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Graham Earnshaw
 
1 Oz 3 (Australian Lifestyle)
Thursday, 10th December, 7pm (talk starts at 7.30pm)
 
Veteran China journalist and entrepreneur Graham Earnshaw’s latest venture Earnshaw Books is dedicated to reviving lost nuggets of the country’s past. Since it began publishing last year, it has released a string of books on old Shanghai, including Bridge House Survivor, Henry Pringle’s stark memoir of torture in a Japanese prison, a collection of the works of the legendary cartoonist Sapajou, and republished books including Carl Crow’s 400 Million Customers and the famously louche 1930s Shanghai guidebook Shanghai – High Lights, Low Lights, Tael Lights. Other books include Tales of Old Peking and the memoir I Sailed with Chinese Pirates. Graham Earnshaw will talk about his fascination with old Shanghai, the challenges of running a publishing business from China, and his future projects.
 
Venue details: 1 Oz 3 (Australian Lifestyle), No. 1 Yueyang Lu, near Fenyang Lu (6433 2917)
 
Admission: Members free; Non-members 50 RMB
Earnshaw Books titles will be available at a discounted price to FCC members.
 
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About the Speaker:
Graham Earnshaw began his career as a journalist in Hong Kong in the mid-1970s, was posted to Beijing with Reuters in 1979, and in 1980 became the Daily Telegraph’s China correspondent. Returning to Reuters, he served as China Bureau Chief, Chief Correspondent for Japan, and, from 1990-95, Asia Editor based in Hong Kong. In 1995 he moved to Shanghai to open the new Reuters bureau in the city, but soon quit journalism to set up his own business ventures. His varied career since has included the websites Shanghai-ed and ChinaNow; Park 97 restaurant; Sinomedia (publisher of the China Economic Review and SpaChina) and Xinhua Finance News.  In 2007 he started Earnshaw Books, and edited the compilation Tales of Old Shanghai.  His earlier books include the travel guide On Your Own in China (1984), and Life and Death of a Dotcom in China (2000). He has also published a translation of Louis Cha (Jin Yong)’s famous Kung Fu novel The Book and the Sword, and since 2004 has been walking across China – at weekends: a book on his experiences, The Great Walk of China, will be published next year. A keen musician, he also claims to have played in China’s first ever rock concert, and to have been the first person to perform at a bar in Shanghai since the 1950s.