Paul Wilson
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Biography
Publications
Paul Wilson has been travelling through Central Asia and China since the late 1990s. His guide book, The Silk Roads (Trailblazer), is in its third edition. He is a regular speaker at the UNWTO’s Silk Road Programme and Open Central Asian Literary Festival.
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Could China go the way of the USSR?
Much of what lies within ‘Chinese’ borders today was not so long ago a mosaic of very separate, very non-Chinese states.