The Emperor Far Away: Travels at the Edge of China

by David Eimer

We say China is a country vast in territory, rich in resources and large in population; as a matter of fact it is the Han nationality whose population is large and the minority nationalities whose territory is vast and whose resources are rich . . . Mao Zedong speech, 25 April 1956, subsequently published

Lin Lin liked to cultivate an air of mystery. She had an enticing, cat-like, self-contained nature.