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Feeding the Feral Children by Star Wars tie-in author Dave Wolverton (
ISFDB,
Wikipedia) writing as David Farland, a fantasy short set in Ancient China, originally published in the Prime Books anthology
The Way of the Wizard in 2010.
In 235 BC, a young man in China falls in love, but needs money to buy land in order to convince a young woman’s father that he is a worthy suitor.
Taking the dangerous new Silk Road into Persia, he must face giant pink-tusked elephants, desert sandstorms, and dangerous bandits.
But when all that he owns is stolen, he runs afoul of Mongol sorcerer, to the peril of his soul.