# Frances Wood
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frances wood (Chinese name Wú Fāngsī 吴芳思; born 1948) is an English librarian, sinologue and historian known for her writings on Chinese history, including Marco Polo, life in the Chinese treaty ports, and the First Emperor of China.
== Biography ==
Wood was born in London in 1948, and went to art school in Liverpool in 1967, before going to Newnham College, Cambridge University, where she studied Chinese. She went to China to study Chinese at Peking University in 1975–1976.
March 29-Mermaids and Terracotta Warriors
Cat dives into the deep end of mermaid history. Fox digs up the secrets of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of China.
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Mermaids: Myth, Kith and Kin by Akanksha Singh
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Bidisha and Gillian Reynolds
Writer and broadcaster Bidisha and radio reviewer Gillian Reynolds join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Jean Rhys, Frances Woods and John Le Carre.
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Publisher: Penguin
Hand Grenade Practice in Peking by Frances Woods
Publisher: Slightly Foxed
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Frances Wood Tells All and Still Has Her Joy
Frances E. Wood is a scholar and educator; her work reflects a profound commitment to justice and the transformative power of ideas. A feminist and womanist thinker with both depth and breadth of knowledge, she brings together intellectual rigor, lived experience, and spiritual insight in ways that…
Bidisha and Gillian Reynolds
Writer and broadcaster Bidisha and radio reviewer Gillian Reynolds join Harriett Gilbert to discuss favourite books by Jean Rhys, Frances Woods and John Le Carre.
Wide Sargasso Sea, by Jean Rhys
Publisher: Penguin
Hand Grenade Practice in Peking by Frances Woods
Publisher: Slightly Foxed
Call For…
China: The Life and Times of Chairman Mao
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel east to tell the story of China - what it is and where it came from.
"Twentieth century China is the most extraordinary place, and Mao is at the heart of nearly all of it."
With the help of Tania Branigan, Red Memory: Living, Remembering and Forgetting China's Cu…
China: Imperial Collapse
"You could do a whole programme on why you shouldn't build a capital in Beijing. It's a Mongolian camel camp." Paul French
Beijing means capital of the north, and was first used by the Ming to distinguish it from Nanjng, capital of the south. Home to the Forbidden City where the emperors lived, the…
China: To Kowtow or Not Kowtow
Britain was late in its contacts with China and the Qing dynasty - the Portuguese, the Dutch and the Spanish had all headed east long before Lord McCartney's embassy tried to establish a formal relationship in 1792/3. Although it failed, this mission is famous for one thing - whether the British en…
China: The First Emperor
Misha Glenny and Miles Warde travel east to tell the story of China - what it is and where it came from.
"The empire long united must divide, long divided must unite. Thus it has ever been." The opening lines of a fourteenth century novel about the rise and fall of China's multiple dynasties, histo…
Star Trek: TNG Season Two, Episode 11 "Contagion" with Sofia
Sofia and Jeff discuss this fair-to-middling episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. This one is difficult, but the podcast episode is great!
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