David Alexander Eimer is a journalist and author. Eimer is a former foreign correspondent for ''

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was f ...

'' covering China and for the '' South China Morning Post'' covering Southeast Asia.

Career

Eimer is a former correspondent in southeast Asia and China for the ''Sunday Telegraph'', working there from 2007 to 2012.

Books

A Savage Dreamland

''A Savage Dreamland; Journeys in Burma'' (Bloomsbury 2019) is about

Burma Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

, a country Eimer explores though historical and scholarly sources, in interviews, and by travel to parts of the country rarely seen by tourists.

The Emperor Far Away

The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China
' (Bloomsbury 2014).

Personal life

Eimer lives in

Bangkok Bangkok, officially known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon and colloquially as Krung Thep, is the capital and most populous city of Thailand. The city occupies in the Chao Phraya River delta in central Thailand and has an estimated populati ...

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is b ...

References

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