MixedThe Times Literary Supplement (UK)... enlightening ... Langfitt’s experience of China since the late 1990s enables him to chart the changes in a nation he sees as \'more repressive by the day\' ... The writing in The Shanghai Free Taxi can be a little clunky, as are some of the translations, and the narrative has a frustrating habit of allowing some of its characters to disappear for long stretches, only for them to re-emerge towards the end. Frank Langfitt, a devout Christian, also draws connections between state restrictions on religion and an apparent immorality in today’s China in a manner that may sit uncomfortably with some readers. But he should nonetheless be lauded for a generally readable and admirably sincere attempt to understand a nation and its people.
