I once travelled 6,000 miles from Chengdu in Western China overland through southeastern Tibet to Lhasa with a young colleague, and it was only when I got to Lhasa that I understood the face behind the statistics you hear about: 6,000 sacred monuments torn apart to dust and ashes, 1.2 million people killed by the cadres during the Cultural Revolution.
Una vez viajé casi 10 000 kilómetros desde Chengdu en China Occidental por tierra hasta el sureste del Tíbet, hasta Lhasa.