RETURNING TO A NEW TIBET
The author is OneMBA academic director at Xiamen University School of Management and ambassador of New Channel International Education Group
When I drove with my wife and young sons some 40,000 km around China in 1994 to gauge the scope and pace of reforms in remote areas, the highlight was Tibet Autonomous Region in the southwest, which I’d dreamed of visiting since reading Lost Horizon, the 1933 novel by James Hilton, which created the concept of an ideal world among the high mountains of Tibet, as a child.
As we crested the Tanggula Pass at 5,231 meters above sea level into the Roof of the World, lightning bolts slammed nearby peaks and hail pelted our wheezing van as
