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The Story of China, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, explores the history of the world's oldest continuous state, from the ancient past to the present day.
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MICHAEL WOOD is one of our most versatile critics, conversant with both modern literature and film. A graduate of Cambridge University, he spent most of his career at Princeton, where he is a professor emeritus of comparative literature. Among his many works are The Magician's Doubts: Nabokov and the Risks of Fiction, Children of Science: On Contemporary Fiction, and America in the Movies, a survey of Hollywood films of the 1940s and 1950s.
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