On 20th April 2018, China Daily published a long interview with Adam Williams by Andrew Moody.
China Daily interview with Adam Williams
“Adam Williams has had two remarkable careers: one as a prominent British business figure in China and another as a best-selling author of Chinese historical fiction.
Adam Williams believes it is wrong to impose the values of today on historical figures of the past.
The 64-year-old author and businessman argues that people are very much prisoners of their own times.
“I am a historical novelist. If I am writing about the 1100s, the people then were different. They thought in a different way. They had different standards and the society they lived in had different values,” he says.
Williams, who was speaking in his expansive book-lined apartment off Upper East Street in Beijing, has combined two remarkable careers: he’s both one of the most prominent British business figures in China and a bestselling Chinese historical fiction writer at the same time. […]”
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