Frances Wood
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Who is Frances Wood?
Frances Wood 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. She has argued in her 1995 book, Did Marco Polo go to China?, that the book of Marco Polo is not the account of a single person, but is a collection of travellers' tales. In May 2012, she appeared on In Our Time on Radio Four, talking about Marco Polo. In December 2012 she appeared on the Christmas University Challenge special as a member of the Newnham College, Cambridge team.
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- Newnham College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- University of London
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on July 23, 2013
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