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...small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting - and unwilling - assignees to a program of re-education through labor. Their crime: parents labeled as enemies...
...Daocheng, a two-day bus ride from the Sichuan capital, Chengdu, rent a jeep and follow the road past thick forests and open fields, where herds of yaks make their way down to winter grazing grounds, to the Yading Nature Reserve. Once in Yading, trade in your mud-spattered jalopy for a hardy Tibetan pony that can better fare the torturous 14-km trek to Luorong Pasture. From there the view of the Konkaling range is breathtaking. Farther along, the three sacred peaks of Chenrezig, Chanadorje and Jambeyang?named after a trinity of Tibetan deities?loom over the landscape...
...small that when the local canteen prepared a dish of beef and onions the smell reached the nose of every single inhabitant." And the 17-year-old narrator of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Knopf; 197 pages) and his friend Luo, 18, city youths from Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, are dispatched to a small village so remote it is a long day's journey from Yong Jing. It is 1971, midway during the Cultural Revolution, and they are the unwitting?and unwilling?assignees to a program of re-education through labor. Their crime: parents labeled as enemies...
Getting to Tibet can be a chore. Even mentioning the name of such a sensitive region on a Chinese visa application will mean instant rejection. Also, Tibet can only be entered from Nepal (by road) or from Golmud (road) and Chengdu (air). In addition, all visitors must be registered as part of an organized tour and take official guides almost anywhere outside Lhasa. A package is the simplest way to handle the bureaucracy, but far cheaper is a three-day trip bought in China or Nepal after which sightseers can go off on their own as long as they take...
...Chengdu...