Asian history

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No detailed description available for "e;Contemporary Sino-French Cinemas"e;.

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India and China dominate the Asian continent but are separated by formidable geographic barriers and language differences.

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More than thirty years ago, Michael Peisel's classic, Mustang: A Lost Tibetan Kingdom, introduced the world to a region more isolated than the deepest Amazon.

No detailed description available for "e;The 1728 Musin Rebellion"e;.

No detailed description available for "e;Genshin's Ojoyoshu and the Construction of Pure Land Discourse in Heian Japan"e;.

Now one of Kirkus Reviews' "e;Best Books of the Year"e; From Paul French, the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Peking-winner of both the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction-comes City of Devils, a rags-to-riches tale of two self-made men set against a backdrop of crime and vice in the sprawling badlands of Shanghai.

With this short statement, I will try and give a snapshot of my life at that time, and why I wrote this book.