Salon.com > Shangri-La http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 19:56:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 China’s new tourist attraction: “Shangri-La” http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/china_attempts_to_manufacture_%e2%80%9cshangri_la%e2%80%9d_partner/ http://www.salon.com/2013/02/14/china_attempts_to_manufacture_%e2%80%9cshangri_la%e2%80%9d_partner/#comments Thu, 14 Feb 2013 16:38:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13201212 Global Post

Editor's note: "Manufacturing: Shangri-La" is a three-part series on a Tibetan hamlet turned tourist trap. Read Part 2:Profit quest imperils one of world’s most stunning landscapes; Part 3: China’s Shangri-La for minorities.

SHANGRI-LA, China — The fabled land of Shangri-La is a “delightfully favored place,” where monks live for hundreds of years, in the shadow of a “dazzling pyramid,” the mountain Karakal. The air has a “dream-like texture.” Every breath yields a “deep anesthetizing tranquility.”

That, at least, is how Shangri-La is described in "Lost Horizon," British author James Hilton’s classic 1933 novel.

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