دانلود کتاب امپراتوری سهوی چین – Sinostan

This is a book that was started by two and ended by one. It took me a while to get to the end for various reasons, but now I am here, I feel I owe the reader an explanation and perspective before they embark on the text. When we started this project almost a decade ago, we were heading off on an adventure we were both sure was going to initiate something interesting which we would get to work on for the next few years. Our initial immature vision did not have the grandiloquence it ended up with, and if I am honest, we mostly saw this as a way to spend a good chunk of our time criss-crossing the heart of Eurasia. We both enjoyed visiting remote cities in Central Asia or distant Chinese border posts. Sitting in shared taxis where we knew we were getting ripped off as we traveled along remote borderland roads, in dark bars near dusty borders drinking beer (or at Alex’s insistence whatever whiskey they had), or in random institutions meeting curious Eurasians.