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...Himalayan foothills. There, a dozen-odd guardians of China's last free-flowing rivers unveiled a memorial to a fallen comrade, an activist who had died of a heart attack in January. But their mission had another motive. Following the ceremony, they traveled into remote regions of Yunnan province to gauge opposition to a spate of new dam projects and offer assistance to vulnerable peasants trying to stop them from being built. This wasn't a secret trip. Plainclothes police videotaped everything. Undeterred, the outsiders met with peasants in the prosperous village of Chezhou and found many unwilling to sacrifice...
...spectacular mountain scenery and Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects - from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors who make it to this once fabled and remote part of Yunnan province want when they get there? To a new generation of local and expatriate entrepreneurs, the answer is drink - and cafés and bars are everywhere. In the highly improbable surroundings of Zhongdian's old quarter - known in Tibetan as Dukezong - there are now some 25 cocktail bars...
...spectacular mountain scenery and ethnic Tibetan culture, isn't clear. But what is indisputable is the local tourism boom, facilitated by massive infrastructure projects-from a new airport five years ago to new highways today. What will visitors who make it to this once fabled and remote part of Yunnan province want when they get there? To a new generation of local and expatriate entrepreneurs, the answer is drink-and cafés and bars are everywhere. In the highly improbable surroundings of Zhongdian's old quarter-known in Tibetan as Dukezong-there are now some 25 cocktail bars...
...locals of Hama Village know what to do with a fat, smelly truffle. For centuries, if the village pigs in this remote corner of China's Yunnan province were acting a little less amorous than normal, the farmers fed a shovelful of truffles to the creatures in order to guarantee a future litter of piglets. Then, a few years ago, a strange tale wended its way through this hamlet, so disconnected from modern China that Cultural Revolution slogans from three decades ago are still inscribed on the village's mud-brick walls: foreigners, for some mysterious reason, were willing...
...China, though, Wu sees nothing but mycological possibility. In the past year, he has begun exporting his own truffle oil and is starting a canned--foie gras business using geese imported from Hungary. Now he's attempting to duplicate the soil and climate of southern France in his Yunnan fields. If he can create the correct environmental conditions, Wu believes Yunnan's plentiful land and low fixed costs will make him even more of a threat to the European truffle tradition. "Labor is very cheap here," Wu says. "In France they use pigs and dogs to find truffles...