"After inquiring about us, the officer said, 'I have been at the checkpoint only ten days. Life in Tibet, especially here, is hard and lonely.' It's the same story in all the far-flung Autonomous Regions of China. The Chinese who go to settle or work there rarely realise before reaching them how hard life is and how strongly the local people resent their presence."

--from Here Be Yaks by Manosi Lahiri

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