Mishi Saran is the author of the best-selling book Chasing the Monk's Shadow: A Journey in the Footsteps of Xuanzang, a chronicle of a year spent retracing a seventh-century Chinese Buddhist monk's travels to India on the Silk Road. After a BA in Chinese Studies from Wellesley College (USA), she was a journalist in Hong Kong, publishing widely in international media. Her short stories have won awards and been broadcast on the BBC. Mishi Saran lives in Shanghai with he husband and daughter. She is working on her next novel, set in Shanghai in the 1930s. She can be contacted at www.mishisaran.com.
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