Life on the Dulong River: Stepping towards the present
June 2, 2017 Sitting by the fire while the village outside is covered with snow. "You're foreigners, we're Chinese! You're foreigners, we're Chinese!" he screamed at me, using very broken Chinese while we were sitting in his small house. I'm sure he didn't mean to scream, but I really couldn't blame him, given the amount of alcohol that he had drunk by that time. "Yes, you're right," I responded, trying to understand why my being a foreigner was such a big deal. His name is Di Zhonghua (迪忠华), who belongs to the Dulong ethnic minority of southwestern China. He had kindly invited me to st...