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Sun Shuyun

Sun Shuyun

Based in Beijing, China & London, UK

  • Bilingual writer with critically received books in both China and the West
  • Producer of some of the most watched documentaries about China seen on mainstream Western televisions
  • Communicator dedicated to making China more understandable to the world, and vice versa
  • Bilingual writer with critically received books in both China and the West
  • Producer of some of the most watched documentaries about China seen on mainstream Western televisions
  • Communicator dedicated to making China more understandable to the world, and vice versa

Sun Shuyun is Creative Director of Eos Films 太阳影视创意总监. With an Oxford thesis on Tibet, a TV series (A Year in Tibet) seen in over fifty countries, and a book of the same title well received in both West and China, there are very few people whose views and arguments are respected by all sides on the Tibetan issue, and Sun Shuyun is one of those few. From the enduring appeal of Tibet and Buddhism to the reality of the Shangrila, Tibet is her love.

Having produced some of the most-watched films on China in the West, ignorance, prejudice and misperception about China are endemic. How to make China more understandable to the world, and vice versa, is Sun Shuyun’s goal and dedication, through films and books and mass media.

History is a mirror, and the search for historic truth is her passion, as witnessed in her three epic journeys and three subsequent books, Ten Thousand Miles Without a Cloud, The Long March, and A Year in Tibet.

  • Power of the Mind – An encounter with the Tibetans

We love Tibet with its magnificent monasteries, holy mountains and lakes, pious pilgrims, and the all-pervasive spiritual vibe. But how faith is lived in everyday life, how does it help the Tibetans endure in this most inhospitable place on the planet? Sun Shuyun has been learning from the Tibetans ever since she first set foot on that holy place, above all, about the power of the mind.

  • Reality behind the Shangrila

Tibet is not Shangrila, and the reality is full of challenges. How to live in a world that is rapidly disappearing? And can they hold on to what makes them so unique?

  • The Golden Age of China

The West fears when China rules the world. What kind of world could it be? Do the Chinese themselves know? The Golden Age of China – the Tang, after which all China towns in the world are name, gives us a clue. Rich, powerful, sophisticated, open minded, and tolerant, as never before nor after, when women were more equal than men, it is what China should be.

  • The Secret of the Silk Road

The legendary wealth is the least valuable of the Silk Road. The ideas, the cultures and the faiths are the enduring legacy that has benefited more people than anything else in the history of mankind.

10,000 miles cover- Sun Shuyun