David Leffman

David Leffman is a travel writer and photographer who first visited China in 1985. Since then he has clocked up over six years in the country, researching guidebooks for Rough Guides and DK and writing newspaper articles on Chinese history and culture. He has also authored The Mercenary Mandarin, a biography of the 19th-century British adventurer in China, William Mesny; and Paper Horses, about traditional woodblock prints of Chinese folk gods.