In the mid-1920s, Wallis Simpson spent a year in China. She went there "hoping to make a fresh start" after the breakdown of her first marriage to a "heavy-drinking" US naval officer who was ...
Paul French is the author of Midnight in Peking and City of Devils: A Shanghai Noir, as well as most recently, Her Lotus Year: China, the Roaring Twenties and the Making of Wallis Simpson.