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Barbara Demick, Text Publishing, $34.99
Earlier this year, China reacted negatively when Aussie PM Scott Morrison alluded to “Tibet” instead of “Tibet autonomous region”. Its borders with India, Nepal, Bhutan and Myanmar are closed to all but Chinese tourists. Demick was able to obtain a visa because she’d been a correspondent for six years in Beijing.
She visited Ngaba, notorious because 156 monks
