China Postcard 5 - Follow the Yangzi Home

"Shanghai: People's Square"

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China Picture by Mark Morin
Travel story: China Postcard 5 - Follow the Yangzi Home

Let's Call it Shangri-La
I was confused. I had bought an airline ticket from Lhasa to a city called Zhongdian but as I stepped off the plane onto the rainy tarmac, the sign over the terminal building clearly read Shangri-La. Well it seems that the Chinese government has decreed that Zhongdian is the real-life paradise that inspired the famous novel. It is no problem at all that there is little convincing evidence for this - if the government says its so, no one here is going to... More