New look at an Arab hero
By Andrew Moody | China Daily | Updated: 2016-02-24 08:04
In his latest work, writer John Man focuses on a general who is probably as relevant today as he was nearly a thousand years ago, when the Silk Road linked China to the Islamic world. Andrew Moody reports.
John Man, a leading writer on China, is unconcerned about being described as a popular historian.
His books, which include biographies of Marco Polo and Genghis Khan, and have a trademark light jaunty style, sometimes sell in their hundreds of thousands.
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