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Sun Shuyun

Sun was born in China and graduated from Beijing University and won a scholarship to the University of Oxford. Her books include Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud (in which she retraces the journey of the 7th-century Chinese monk Xuanzang), The Long March: The True History of Communist China's Founding Myth, A Year in Tibet, a book made in conjunction with the BBC documentary A Year in Tibet.

Sun Shuyun

Born
1963
Nationality
People's Republic of China
Occupation
film director · writer · historian
Education
Peking University · St Antony's College

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