Ed Jocelyn presents a modern odyssey through China. In five years, he walked 8,000 miles from the lush forests of the south, across the great ranges, prairies and swamplands of Eastern Tibet, and into the arid “yellow earth” of China’s northwest territory. What began as a simple, if ambitious, piece of historical fieldwork became a tumultuous journey into the heart of a little-understood country. By turns welcomed, feted, shunned and arrested, Ed traveled through many areas never before visited by foreigners. Through pictures and stories, Ed pieces together a journey that began idealistically, passed through compulsion and self-destruction, and ended, possibly, in a kind of liberation.



Ed Jocelyn
Ed has lived in China since 1997. Formerly an academic historian, he went on the road in 2002 when he and old friend Andrew McEwen set out to retrace the Long March of the Chinese Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. Five years and 8,000 miles later, the story of this journey was told in “The Long March”, published in five languages in 2006-7. More recently, Ed was one of the founders of Red Rock Treks & Expeditions (www.redrocktrek.com). When not exploring, he lives and writes in Beijing with his two cat companions, Xiao Mao and Li Gu.