Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Map
Prologue
Part One: Hong Kong 1997
1. On the Beach
2. Black Watch
3. Lennox
4. Isabella
5. The House of a Thousand Arseholes
6. Cousin Miles
7. Wang
8. Xinjiang
9. Club 64
10. Ablimit Celil
11. Tiananmen
12. A Good Walk Spoiled
13. The Double
14. Samba’s
15. Underground
16. Twilight
17. Quid Pro Quo
18. Maryland
19. The Engagement
20. Chinese Whispers
21. Chen
22. Dinner for Two
23. Wui Gwai
24. Handover
Part Two: London 2004
25. Not Quite the Diplomat
26. Chinatown
27. Water Under the Bridge
28. Retread
29. The Backstop
Part Three: Shanghai 2005
30. The Paris of Asia
31. Tourism
32. Sleeper
33. Starbucks
34. Nightcrawling
35. The Morning After
36. The Diplomatic Bag
37. An Old Friend
38. M on the Bund
39. Persuasion
40. Beijing
41. Hutong
42. Paradise City
43. The French Concession
44. Screen Four
45. Borne Back
46. The Last Supper
47. Product
48. Closing In
49. Chatter
50. 6/11
51. Beijing Red
52. Bob
53. The Testimony of Joe Lennox
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Also by Charles Cumming
About the Publisher