4th Estate

Sun Shuyun

Sun Shuyun was born in China in the 1960s and grew up during the Cultural Revolution. She graduated from Beijing University and won a scholarship to Oxford. She is now a film and television producer. For the past decade she has been dividing her time between London and Beijing, making documentaries for the BBC, Channel 4 and international broadcasters. Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud was published to great acclaim in 2003, followed by The Long March in 2006. Her latest book A Year in Tibet was published in 2008.