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Hugh Battye

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A graduate from the London School of Economics, Hugh Battye spent fifteen years living in mainland China, where he studied Mandarin and taught English, before embarking on a master’s and then a doctorate degree in ethnology at Lanzhou University, Gansu Province. He attained his PhD in the summer of 2020, and continues to write and speak on China’s minorities.

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A Tale of Two Chinas: A Fifteen-Year Odyssey Through China's Cultural Heartlands

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