The Great Wall, China
Don visited the Great Wall of China at Mutianyu, 90 kilometres north of Beijing. World Heritage listed by UNESCO in 1987, the Great Wall is probably the most widely recognised and enduring symbol of China. In fact, it is said, "The man who ... [... more]
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Shana Sa from HarperCollins Publishers
Shan Sa was born in Beijing, began writing at the age of seven, and had her first poems, essays, and short stories published at the age of eight. In 1990 she moved to Paris, where she learned French, studied philosophy, and worked for the famous ... [... more]
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Zhang Wei from HarperCollins Publishers
Zhang Wei is a member of the Chinese Writers Association, an organization for which he has served as the vice-chairman of the Shandong branch. He is one of the most widely respected fiction writers of the post-Mao era, and he lives in Beijing. [... more]
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Shan Sa from HarperCollins Publishers
Shan Sa is the author of several acclaimed novels, including Empress and The Girl Who Played Go (winner of France's Goncourt Prize). Born in Beijing, she moved to Paris in 1990. She is also a celebrated artist who has had prominent exhibitions in ... [... more]
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Shan Sa / AUTHOR CATALOG
Shan Sa was born in 1972 in Beijing. In 1990 she left China for France, where she studied in Paris and worked for two years with the painter Balthus. Her two previous novels were awarded the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and the Prix Cazes. As ... [... more]
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Ian Johnson
Ian Johnson is the Berlin bureau chief for the Wall Street Journal. In 2001, when he was the Journal's Beijing correspondent, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Falun Gong. He lives in Berlin. Ian Johnson, a Pulitzer Prize winner ... [... more]
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Carolyn Choa
Born and educated in Hong Kong, Carolyn Choa works as a film producer and choreographer in London. David Su Li-Qun was resident playwright at the National Union Theatre in Beijing until emigrating to England in 1984. Since then he has taught at ... [... more]
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Ma Jian / AUTHOR CATALOG
Ma Jian left Beijing for Hong Kong in the early eighties because he was unable to publish his work in China. After the hand-over of Hong Kong he moved to Germany and then London, where he has lived for four years, writing and publishing his ... [... more]
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Chinese House
Don visited a private home in the hutongs. In the urban district of Beijing, hutongs still occupy one third of the total area and they provide housing for half the city's population. Hutongs are actually passageways formed by many closely ... [... more]
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Best time to travel
Head for the snow in winter and the islands in summer... But to get it right, you may want to check out when the perfect time is for you to travel. Manihi Island, Tahiti. Beijing, Asia. Mt Egmont, New Zealand. Friday, January 18, 2002 Head for ... [... more]
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Xiaolu Guo
was born in 1973. After graduating from the Beijing Film Academy, she published a number of books in China. Since 2002, she has been dividing her time between London and Beijing. She has written and directed award-winning documentaries; her first ... [... more]
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Meg Rosoff
Meg Rosoff was born in Boston and lives in London. She is the author of How I Live Now. My biography will prove incredibly inspiring to anyone who wasn't born in Beijing or Kathmandu, wasn't sent to school in Switzerland or Peru, didn't marry a ... [... more]
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