The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet Xiatu (原DangDang) first reporting from the Middle

first reporting from the Middle East before becoming the Beijing bureau chief at the Chicago Tribune and then the China correspondent for The New Yorker

Chiang reveals the important lessons that Chinese youth learn in their pursuit of elite status

我曾有一个偏见，以为旅行文学是英语作家独享的一种文体，像《大海与撒丁岛》或《前往阿姆河之乡》，他们更像是这个世界的主人。刘子超的这本书纠正了我的偏见。他在中欧漫游，穿越清晨的薄雾，带来这本优秀的作品——我们都是过客，但我们也拥有这个世界。——苗炜，作家

——陈夏红　中国政法大学教师

as the world's second largest economy and an emerging military superpower

The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong: The Untold Story of My Struggle for Tibet Xiatu (原DangDang) first reporting from the MiddleShortly before midnight on March 17, 1959, the Dalai Lama, without his glasses and dressed as an ordinary Tibetan solider, slipped out of his summer residence with only four aides at his side. At that moment, he became the symbolic head of the Tibetan government in exile, and Gyalo Thondup, the only one of the Dalai Lama's brothers not to don the robes of a Buddhist monk, became the fulcrum for the independence movement. The Noodle Maker of Kalimpong