This process reached a slightly absurd administrative conclusion in 2002, when Zhongdian County in Southwest China was officially renamed Shangrila, beating bids by neighboring prefectures. 5 Burke also adopted the Shangri-La motif for his Liberty
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a person’s destination on an extremely elastic scale. 2 This also goes in parallel with Mireille Mazard’s (this issue) study of the Nusu in Southwest China, who, at certain critical moments in life (e.g., emotional crisis) experience their human
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2006 ), they are a transnational community, with kin living in southwest China, where they are known as Jingpo, and in northeast India, where they take the name Singpho. Within Burma, the term “Kachin” has come to serve, not unproblematically, as an