Earnshaw Books – New Website & Talk
Posted: December 4th, 2009 | 1 Comment »As I’ve mentioned a couple of new publications from Earnshaw Books in the last few posts I feel compelled to note that they have a new website with more details of their books and online ordering facilities. Click here.
By the way if you’re in Shanghai Graham Earnshaw who founded the publishers is speaking to the Royal Asiatic Society on the 8th. Details below:
GRAHAM EARNSHAW – A PUBLISHERS LIFE
Tuesday 8th December, 2009 at 7:00 p.m.
InterfaceFLOR, Room 201 Raffles City, 268 Central Xizang Zhong lu, Shanghai
Graham Earnshaw will talk about how and why he came to found Earnshaw Books to publish works on China, and occasionally beyond, in 2007. Amongst other revelations about his business and passions, he will give us some understanding of the publishing process, the challenges involved, and how books are selected and developed for release. Expect some candid and colourful accounts of some works that are still in the pipeline, including another two volumes on the celebrated Russian cartoonist Sapajou and the story of how the copyright ownership of the sensationally spicy memoirs of Sir Edmund Backhouse, an English linguistic genius who lived in Peking during the first half of the 20th century is being sorted out ahead of publication next year. He will also talk about the personal challenge, which he embarked upon in 2004 and continues today, to walk across China and share some experiences of that journey with us, prior to them being published early next year.
Graham Earnshaw has been in and around China most of his life, working as a journalist and latterly as a businessman. Actually he first came to live in here in 1979, not during the Ming dynasty as he sometimes claims. He has written several books, including On Your Own in China in 1984, Life and Death of a Dotcom in China in 2000 and Tales of Old Shanghai in 2008. The Great Walk of China will be published in early 2010
ENTRANCE: RMB 30 (RAS members) and RMB 80 (non-members)
RSVP: to RAS Enquiry desk enquiry@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn
Amazing as always :)