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Alec Ash is a writer and editor focused on China, where he lived from 2008–2022. He is a Senior Fellow at Asia Society in New York, where he edits the China Books Review. He is the author of Wish Lanterns (Picador, 2016) about the lives of young Chinese people, a BBC Book of the Week, and The Mountains Are High (Scribe, 2024) about city escapees moving to rural southwest China. Ash was born in England, and studied English literature at Oxford University, before moving to Beijing. He has written for The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic and elsewhere, and was a stringer for The Economist and The Sunday Times. He was editor of the China Channel at the Los Angeles Review of Books, contributing author to the book of reportage Chinese Characters, and co-editor of the anthology While We’re Here.

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The Mountains Are High

A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China

By: Alec Ash

Narrated by: Alec Ash

Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins

Release date: 18-04-24

Language: English

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