Personalities


“Big in Beijing”–Review of an Accidental Rock Star’s Odyssey

May 16th, 2011 by John Strawn
When the Wall Street Journal offered Alan Paul's wife a posting to Beijing as its China bureau chief in 2005, he had no idea that within three years, he would be a rock star, the front man for Beijing's "band of the year," the eponymous "Woodie Alan." (The band's handle was a combination of Paul's and his Chinese bandmate Woodie Wu's first names -- a joke surely lost on most of the band's fans.) The unlikely saga of Woodie Alan is the subject... Full Story