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This month the TVC Book Club discusses "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" by James Zimmerman.

This month the TVC Book Club discusses "The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China" by James Zimmerman. Zimmerman's 2023 book tells the thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era. Brilliantly written, with new and original research, the book tells the incredible true story of a clash that shocked the world—becoming so celebrated it inspired several Hollywood movies—and set the course for China’s two-decade civil war. The Peking Express garnered The New York Times Editors' Choice and Fortune Magazine's Best Non-Fiction Books of 2023, among many other accolades. James M. Zimmerman is a Beijing-based author and lawyer who has lived and worked in China for more than twenty-five years. He is among China’s leading foreign lawyers and represents companies and individuals confronted with the political and legal complexities of doing business in Mainland China. He is the former four-term chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China.