Author: Sam Gaskin

Sam Gaskin is an arts and culture journalist based in Shanghai. In addition to CNNGo, you can find his writing in The New Zealand Listener, Shanghai Talk and on his blog.

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Rachel DeWoskin: the writer befriending Shanghai's second wives
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Rachel DeWoskin: the writer befriending Shanghai's second wives

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The author of "Foreign Babes in Beijing" and M's writer-in-residence is juggling a new novel, a TV pilot and a story about second wives
The original sexpat: Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse
Decadence Mandchoue - Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse

The original sexpat: Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse

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Truth or fiction, Backhouse’s trysts with Qing dynasty prostitutes, eunuchs and Empress Cixi in ‘Decadence Mandchoue’ are definitely strange
Sam Gaskin: Stop saying ‘Boond’ already
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Sam Gaskin: Stop saying ‘Boond’ already

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If you’re sipping ‘Mo-way’ on the ‘Boond’ then you’re doing it all wrong

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