This Wednesday – Beijing Bookworm – Zhang Zoulin: The Engineer and The Warlord

What sounds like a potentially fascinating talk at the Beijing Bookworm this Wednesday

Wednesday 27 April

The Engineer and The Warlord – presented by Beijing Postcards

7.30pm

20/30rmb

Beijing Postcards shares fascinating footage and tales from the roaring 20s, where warlords shifted sides and assassinated each other as often as they changed concubines. Simon Gjeroe explores the complicated relationship between the engineer Robert Christensen and the warlord, Zhang Zoulin. Christensen documented the life and death of the hot-tempered former bandit who ruled Manchuria as his own.