Graham Earnshaw - A Publisher’s Life

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RAS STUDIO

Tuesday 8^th December,  2009 at 7:00 p.m.

InterfaceFLOR, Room 201 Raffles City, 268 Central Xizang Zhong lu, Shanghai

GRAHAM EARNSHAW - A PUBLISHER'S LIFE

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 20^th 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) Those unable to make the donation but wishing to attend may contact us for exemption, prior to the RAS Lecture. Membership applications and membership renewals will be available at this event.

RSVP: to RAS Enquiry desk enquiry@royalasiaticsociety.org.cn

BOOKS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE AT A SPECIAL RAS MEMBER PRICES

DIRECTIONS: InterfaceFLOR, Room 201 (second floor), Raffles City (office tower), 268 Central Tibet Road. Entrance to office tower from rear on CENTRAL YUNNAN ROAD. Tel: 6340 3868