French (Concession) Press focuses on work arising from life in Shanghai.
David Perry’s Expat Taxes, published in 2016, is the first in a planned series of F(C)P projects.
Planned future F(C)P projects include translations of work by Shanghai writers as well as work in English that engages with life in the city.
The bracketing of “Concession” in the name is intended, in part, to put light yet firm, steady pressure on the complexities, problems, and open questions involved in a space shaped and fractured by Shanghai’s unique history.
In a sense, the parentheses may be read as “former,” as in “former French Concession”; we also invite the play of form within “former”: formative, deforming and deformed, formulae (and their failures), reform and opening, performance and performativity, poetic form, etc.