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In 1916, an American activist and writer traveled to China from the frontlines of World War I. What she saw in the city delighted her; what she saw in the opium trade appalled her.
‘The Travels of Marco Polo’ is often held up as the earliest Western account of China and Asia. What’s actually inside the covers might surprise you.
The British adventurer’s 1936 account of his journey across the Tibetan Plateau and Xinjiang shows its age but remains a classic of travel writing.
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Join our book club in May to discuss Uyghur poet-in-exile Tahir Hamut Izgil’s memoir, a harrowing account of one family’s escape from the persecution of the Uyghur people in Xinjiang, translated by Joshua L. Freeman and interspersed with Tahir’s own poems.
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