James Palmer

James Palmer was born in 1978. In 2003 he won the Spectator’s Shiva Naipaul Prize for travel writing. He has worked with Daoist and Buddhist groups in China and Mongolia on environmental issues, and now lives in Beijing. The Bloody White Baron, shortlisted for the 2008 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, is his first book. He is currently working on his second book, about the Tangshan earthquake of 1976 and the death of Mao. He lives in Beijing, where he is the opinion editor for the English-language Beijing-based newspaper "Global Times."The Bloody White Baron, Sunday, March 21, 3pm.