Word: di
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...research for his final dissertation on the Qing dynasty, Di Cosmo spent one year at the University of Nanjing in China, where his interest in Inner Asia and the nomadic groups that inhabited it grew...
However, no one would accuse Di Cosmo of locking himself in the library...
...While I was writing my thesis, I also worked as a freelance journalist." Di Cosmo says. "One day, a Chinese director I interviewed drafted me to be in his film, Xi-An Incident, where Chiang Kaishek is kidnapped. I played an American military officer who was invited to a ball. I had to learn how to waltz for the scene, but then again, I got to dance with a very attractive actress...
After his brief foray in Chinese cinema, Di Cosmo came back to Venice in 1982 to finish his thesis...
...Di Cosmo's luck changed in 1984 when he won a scholarship from the Italian Ministry of Education to study abroad at a graduate program...