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The Pool Of UneaseCatherine SampsonMacmillan review by: Paul W Smith
Beijing. A private detective, Song Ren stakes out a brothel for a client seeking evidence of infidelity, but after rescuing a young boy from a fire,… more »
I just got back to Beijing after two months away, and I feel as though I've entered a parallel universe. I'm totally jet-lagged, after a night up with three jet-lagged children who awoke for three hours each in turn. So my observations are not profound.
I want to tell you about t… more »
From the sublime to the deliciously ridiculous – having spoken on the weighty subject of press freedom at the Frontline Club just a couple of days ago, this morning I was interviewed on the Jenny Éclair show on LBC. Jenny Éclair is a Perrier-winning stand-up comedienne, and she w… more »
This is one for people who like to have fun writing - www.theneverendingstory.co.uk is a site where members post the first page of a story and other members add pages one by one so that the story is a collaborative, ever-envolving phenomenon! I've posted the first page … more »
I'm taking part in a panel discussion at the Frontline Club on 23rd August at 7.30pm. The topic is the foreign media's coverage of China. Tickets are 7 pounds, and you can book online at www.thefrontlineclub.com. If you can't come, there is a live webcast (!) at the same web address, … more »
In Beijing, a pregnant woman, Zeng Jinyan, blogs almost daily about her married life. This, however, is no tale of cosy domesticity. She posts photographs of the cars used by the state security officers who follow her and her husband every time they leave their house.
Last week, she described … more »
Catherine Sampson's top 10 Asian crime fiction Catherine Sampson's latest novel, The Pool of Unease, is set in Beijing, where the author has lived for many years. Her earlier books, Falling Off Air, and Out of Mind, both featured journalist and single mother Robin Ballantyne. In The Pool o… more »
What a summer. The Pool of Unease comes out on Friday, and I’ve been doing a flurry of local radio interviews and writing about all manner of things for publicity purposes. I’ve been in England for nearly a month with all three children, and things have been a tad chaotic with me yo-yo… more »
27th June 2007
Well, I was wondering what to blog….and then, this being China, an incident occurred quite literally on my doorstep. It took place on Friday, and it was a siege that lasted six hours until the authorities realized it was about to escalate into a diplomatic incident, at which p… more »
Sunday 24th June
I just felt I had to share the first two paragraphs of this story in the Beijing Today, which came complete with a photograph of a scrawny dog next to an armoured personnel carrier.
It read thus:
A top leader of a Tangshan-based criminal syndicated a… more »