Wednesday, October 03, 2007

On the Road and on the Run in Outlaw China

"Hey, what happened to your jacket?" he was evidently asking.
"This is what." Yong showed him the crumbs of half-eaten cakes, and Robby laughed.

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"A doctor operated on his throat with wire. It's so he can't yell counter-revolutionary slogans," Xie Wei informed Yong
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A travelogue written by the Japanese lover of a revolutionary Chinese artist on the run, recounting their joint journey from China through to Tibet and Nepal. Simple, captivating, sometimes painful, foreign but always fundamentally human.