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.