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...between Burma's Shan states and modern-day Laos. They were following a well-worn path. For centuries, the Buddhist, rice-farming Dai have been tempted by the wide open spaces of Thailand's north, and have ventured across the Mekong to start anew. Sawitree grew up speaking Dai Lue, the main Dai language, which remains the lingua franca of many northern Thais...
...glimpse of her roots had come two days earlier. Our passenger plane from Thailand dropped through a thick layer of cloud to reveal steep, wrinkled peaks flanking a jade patchwork of paddies. As we whizzed over the treetops to land outside the main town of Jinghong?or in Dai Lue, Chiang Rung, "the city of the dawn"?what looked like dozens of Pizza Huts peeped from the verdure. This was the unique architecture of the Dai?their signature, high-canted roofs perched atop thick teak pillars...
...That all seems a long time ago now," says General Lue Ye-tien, Tuan's former right-hand man. Tuan died in 1980 but Lue still cuts a sprightly figure at 85 and relishes the peace of his twilight years after a lifetime of fighting. A towering chap with a ramrod back and a vaguely wintery air, he retains a formidable presence even as he potters about the twisting rows of tea bushes swaddling the slopes below his Chinese-style villa. Further down, the mountain falls away in an undulating patchwork of tea, tobacco, fruit trees and stands of thick...
...uncle Lue seems to have found his second calling. Sipping tea on the sun-drenched balcony of his villa, I ask him about the cherry blossoms. I mean, they're lovely, but aren't they kind of, well, Japanese? "No," he replies. "These are special Chinese sakura trees from Yunnan. I planted some of them myself...
...TYRONN LUE Unknown 6-ft. Laker in shadow of Shaq soars in play-offs as man who slowwwed Iverson...