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...Even if Wang and Yao make it in the NBA, the nation has only one other prospective dazzler in the wings?Inner Mongolian Menk Batere. It may take another decade for China's basketball machine to produce a full crop of giant exports. The NBA, which touts itself as the "world's greatest league," is restrained about China's potential. In terms of NBA revenue, the nation lags far behind Japan and Taiwan. When Wang's debut was broadcast on state television last Friday, crowds gathered in Beijing to cheer on their native son. Several die-hard fans sported brand...
...starting point for any trip is the capital, Ulan Bator, reached by Mongolian Airlines (MIAT) or Air China from Beijing. From the air, Mongolia looks like one huge paddock. Smoothed grasslands that cover an area three times the size of France are punctuated by an occasional group of gers, the circular tents of grubby white felt that many Mongols call home. You'll need a four-wheel drive once out of town. Most people take pre-arranged tours but Karakoram Expeditions can fix transport, guides and horses for independent travelers. Call...
...Mongolian ponies prefer people to smell like goats and are spooked by cameras. Otherwise, they are fine for beginners. (They don't mind different saddles, so consider taking your own to replace the unforgiving wooden Mongolian model.) Try to visit in July for the Naadam, or manly sports, festival of archery, wrestling and horse racing. The events were begun by Genghis to ensure his hordes stayed sharp between maraudings, but these days jockeys can be as young as five and women compete in all but wrestling. Rides can also be planned to see ethnic Kazakhs hunting with trained eagles...
...such obsessiveness emerge images of seemingly effortless beauty. Zhang shows us the unedited six-and-a-half-minute sequence from the Mongolian shoot, a scene so breathtaking it will no doubt earn a place in the cinematic pantheon. Dazzling in red costumes against a pale yellow sun, the two women ballet rather than battle it out, leaping over the treetops and chasing each other's dress trains, while leaves, fanned by the wind, drift down like confetti tossed by an admiring god. It's as though Zhang took a French impressionist canvas for a backdrop and spooled it onto...
When an eccentric old Mongolian walked into the backyard of a laid-back American poet in 1987, neither imagined, surely, that they would one day be lurching through modern China in search of a teacher's grave. But Tsing Tsai proved to be no ordinary monk, poet and kung-fu master; and George Crane turned out to be a sympathetic Sancho Panza and inner Mongolian at heart. Written with the quick, vivid immediacy of an ancient Eastern poem, Bones beautifully recounts the recent heartbreaking history of Mongolia--and shows how spirit can get the better of even the deepest sorrow...