Robert Bickers and Paul French: Old China's Secret Worlds Revealed

China has often been inscrutable to Westerners but new research is opening up aspects of Chinese history hidden for decades and centuries. In his The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914, Robert Bickers, Professor of History at Bristol University, looks at the way China attracted the attention of British and European powers in the early nineteenth century. He discusses this with Paul French, author of Midnight in Peking: The Murder That Haunted the Last Days of Old China, the shocking story of Pamela Warner, teenage daughter of the city's former British consul Edward Werner murdered in 1937. Both talk of a hidden China and one that has much to tell us about China today.

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Above: Robert Bickers; main image: Paul French