The growth and popularity of family history means more people than ever are looking to use archives that reveal stories from China in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Self publishing, podcasts, blogs and websites mean so many more unique and valuable histories are appearing. But how to go about finding the illusive details of trips, sojourns and lives in China?

Paul French, who has successfully recreated any number of old China stories from Beijing true crime to Shanghai high society to lost artist lives and hidden gangster underworlds reveals some of the tricks to tracking down those seemingly lost to history.

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