It was 1994 when xinran, a journalist and the author of, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from tibet into China. Xinran made the tri...It was 1994 when xinran, a journalist and the author of, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of her thirty-year odyssey in the vast landscape of tibet.