Love for Love

The drain in Zhou Jian’s bathroom is clogged with hair again. The 48-year-old has a buzz cut and lives alone, but he said the drain blocks twice a month. “It never happened when I was in Shanghai. I’m losing my hair much faster on the plateau,” Zhou, Vice President of the Xigaze People’s Hospital in Tibet Autonomous Region, southwest China, told Beijing Review.

With an average altitude of 4,000 meters above sea level, Xigaze is the second largest city in Tibet. Zhou, a surgeon specializing in breast and thyroid treatment at Huashan Hospital in Shanghai, arrived there in July 2019 as part of a three-year medical assistance program.

When asked why he chose to come to Tibet, Zhou