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THE STORY OF CHINA TCA Biographies Michael Wood Historian, filmmaker and broadcaster Michael Wood has brought history alive for PBS viewers for the last 30 years. He is the author of several best-selling books and well over one hundred documentary films, which the New York Times has described as “among the best history documentaries ever shown on TV.” PBS viewers will especially remember his epic journey In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, and more recently The Story of India, which the Wall Street Journal said was “still the gold standard” of documentary history making. His latest series, The Story of China, will air on PBS in summer 2017. Wood was born in Manchester and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Oriel College Oxford, where he did post-graduate research in early English history. He is currently professor of public history at the University of Manchester and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. He recently received the British Academy President’s Medal for services to history and public outreach. Rebecca Dobbs Producer/director Rebecca Dobbs, a founder of Maya Vision International, has been making award-winning dramas and factual programs for worldwide audiences for 30 years. She has worked closely with historian Michael Wood on a number of projects for PBS, including In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great, Conquistadors, In Search of Shakespeare, Myths and Heroes and The Story of India. Their latest collaboration – a landmark, six-part PBS/BBC series on the history of China, The Story of China – is slated for transmission in 2017. Lik Hang Tsui Lik Hang Tsui is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. After graduating from Peking University, he conducted research on Chinese history at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and at the Academia Sinica. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Oxford for a study on the culture of letter writing in pre-modern China. He was previously a lecturer at Oxford and now works for the China Biographical Database at Harvard, which aims to investigate China’s past by digitizing all its biographical records. .

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