The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China (Paperback) by David Eimer

from bezoar44

If one were looking for a single book on China's ethnic minorities, it is hard to imagine that this would be the one to pick. Author David Eimer clearly has guts and is an enterprising traveler, working his way around the most remote corners of modern China - Xinjiang, Tibet, Yunnan, and Dongbei....

from nemoman

Eisner has spent a good fifteen or more years living and working as a journalist. He travels to the margins of China, where the Chinese struggle to impose hegemony over the myriad minorities that inhabit those regions. The difficulty in doing so is expressed in the book's title. I found the obser...

from zmagic69

An outstanding book about the parts of China the Chinese government doesn't promote and few westerners will ever visit. Traveling in the borderlands of China you can see that not only is China enormous economic, but not all of the people are benefiting from the exploding economy, nor are they hap...

from zmagic69

An outstanding book about the parts of China the Chinese government doesn't promote and few westerners will ever visit. Traveling in the borderlands of China you can see that not only is China enormous economic, but not all of the people are benefiting from the exploding economy, nor are they hap...