Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
Autor Colin Legerton, Jacob Rawsonen Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1556528140
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 50 colour photos & 5 maps
Dimensiuni: 152 x 228 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.53 kg
Editura: Chicago Review Press
Colecția Chicago Review Press (US)
Recenzii
"Legerton and Rawson eschew flourishes and hew to description in imparting their experiences for travel readers intrigued by China's remote regions." -- Booklist
"An earnest, revealing travelogue." -- Kirkus Reviews
"A remarkable look at an extremely complex society." --FEAST
Notă biografică
Colin Legerton graduated from Tufts University with a degree in Chinese language and literature. He spent a year in Urumqi studying Uyghur and mentoring western China's only baseball team and later produced Diamond in the Dunes, a documentary film that tells their story. He has worked as a Chinese-English translator and is currently pursuing a master's degree in Central Asian studies at Indiana University, with a focus on Uyghur literature.
Jacob Rawson has lived and studied in Yokohama and Beijing. After graduating from Lewis and Clark College with a degree in Chinese and Japanese languages, he taught at a high school in rural South Korea as a Fulbright fellow. Now back in the States, he has given presentations on China's ethnic minorities and the Korean minority in Japan. He is working toward a master's degree in Chinese and Korean linguistics at the University of Washington.