I was always one to take things as they came, though that didn’t mean—at all—that I was happy with every part of my walk. There were many, many difficulties. And I had expected no less. This was pre-Tiananmen Square China, a China that very few Westerners had seen. I had to pass through twelve provinces that were forbidden for foreigners. There were areas that were polluted by radioactivity. I saw people tied to trees, left out to die, as a form of punishment. I saw wolves eating corpses. This was a China that nobody wanted to see. The
