Beachhead advisor Adam Williams is the fourth generation of his family to be living and working in China. Get his take on the big economic and cultural shifts happening in China, and what New Zealand companies need to know to be successful in the market. Click here to view on the NZTE website.
A Christmas message from Adam Williams
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wishing you a very merry Christmas and a Happy New Year Adam Williams
The Queen of the Wood – The Dezi Winery, Le Marche
Friday, December 17, 2010
On a temperate June evening three years ago, I was having dinner with my friends and guests, Stephen Bradley, then British Consul General in Hong Kong, and Count Florian Von Hirsch, a merchant banker from Bavaria and London. We had chosen the I Piceni Restaurant, in the hilltop village of Ortezzano, with its fine views […]
A Visit to Number 27, The Bund, Shanghai
Friday, December 3, 2010
Last Monday my Shanghai colleague, Eugene Liu, and I escorted a 93-year-old Jardine veteran, Mr S C Fong, a former senior manager of the Airways Department, back to his old office at 27 The Bund. Mr Fong is probably the last person left alive who worked there when it was the headquarters of Jardine Matheson […]
Piers Williams’s ‘Power of Flowers’ Exhibition
Monday, September 13, 2010
Watch out for Piers Williams’s “Power of Flowers’ Exhibition in the Xi Gallery at 798, Beijing, starting 25 Sept, 2010. See http://www.piersart.com/
Diary Entry: Force, Le Marche, 27 August 1010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
They have strung a dead man from a gibbet outside our house. We had to close the shutters on the alley so Sybil wouldn’t see him dangling there and be frightened. The moon is surfing black clouds that pound through the night sky. Fulvia, our neighbour, said it is the sort of Friday that witches […]
Memories of the Spanish Caliphate
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Exactly one thousand three hundred years ago a mixed army of Arabs and Berbers reached the Straits of Gibraltar. It had taken the forces of Islam less than eighty years from their Prophet’s death to conquer North Africa. Now they were ready to carry their religion into Europe. In 711 they arrived in Spain, easily […]
Cairo – Then and Now
Friday, April 23, 2010
Research trip to Cairo – Part 2 Then and now. Parts of Cairo have not changed in hundreds of years. Modern photos taken last week, compared to paintings by David Roberts R.A. (1796-1864). Wandering down the southern part of al-Muizz Street, in modern and Ottoman times a textile market, one sees that certain fashions haven’t […]
Research trip to Cairo
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Adam Williams has just sent these photos from Cairo where rumour has it he is researching a sequel to The Book of the Alchemist. Please click on thumbnails below to scroll through the gallery: Click here to order ‘The Book of the Alchemist’ from Amazon.co.uk
A treasure from the vault and updated biography
Monday, February 22, 2010
Adam has just updated the biography section of this website! Adam Williams explores his colonial ancestry as the first treasure comes out of the Newmarch vaults. Click this link to read more – A Treasure from the Vault
