The Long March - Softcover

Sun Shuyun was born in China in the 1960s. She graduated from Beijing University and won a scholarship to Oxford. She is a film and television producer and has made documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and international broadcasters. For the past decade she has divided her time between Beijing and London.

'...an impressive job of on-the-ground reporting, interweaving the memories of survivors to build up the narrative... ' Observer'Sun Shuyun provides a sympathetic account, and ...all the more refreshing because of the grit of her own travails.' The Times'[Sun Shuyun's] is a lively and very human account.' Sunday Telegraph'...a testament to Shuyun's old-fashioned journalistic values. She has gone to places where something has happened and asked questions.' Telegraph'...from the ocean of lies about the Long March she has salvaged much truth. I hope...Shuyun writes more books...' Literary Review`There is a warmth to Sun Shuyun's account that makes it much more readable [than Jung Chang's Mao biography]...her own personal voyage of discovery adds poignancy to her vividly descriptive book.' Metro