Adventure Journal of the Yarlung Tsangpo River Rafting

Author: Shui Xiaojie
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Publish Date: 2007-01-01
Features: 1998 was China's year of exploration. That year, the media hyped the Tibet "World Great Canyon" expedition, which featured a glamorous national-level exploration team. Their words, images, and achievements spread far and wide through national electronic and print media, everything appearing flawless. However, at the same time, another grassroots exploration team, ragged and disheveled, had been drifting down the Yarlung Tsangpo River for six months, out of supplies, yet still determined to cross the "impossible" canyon. What they had done was miraculously "censored" by most media, fading from the public eye until the publication of this book, "The Yarlung Tsangpo River," four years later. A black comedy of absurdity—a struggle of courageous Chinese people, a conspiracy to the truth. I know what is needed is not heroes, but reality.