Paul French has lived and worked in Shanghai for many years. He is a widely published analyst, journalist and commentator on China and foreign business in the country. This is his third book. His first was One Billion Shoppers - Accessing Asia's Consuming Passions After the Meltdown written with Matthew Crabbe and inspired by Carl Crow's similarly titled book. Recently, Paul French has written the well-received North Korea The Paranoid Peninsula - A Modern History.