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Paul French and Sarah Wooley
Historian and Dramatist
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Creating the Docu-Drama Peking Noir

Peking Noir tells the life story of Shura Giraldi, a Russian émigré to China in the wake of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. But the known facts of Shura's story were incomplete, which is where drama can fill in the gaps. Historian Paul French and Dramatist Sarah Wooley explain how the process worked.