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    A Bridge to China

    Aug 25, 2022 4 minutes
    By Li Xiaoyang
    (
    Reporting from Yunnan Province
    )
    Copyedited by G.P. Wilson

    Tourists begin arriving at the rice paddies of Xizhou Township early in the morning. The township, with beautiful natural scenery and distinctive culture of the Bai ethnic group, is a popular tourist attraction on Chinese social media platforms. Among the crowd of tourists and local residents, sometimes you may see an American with long blonde hair, known to many by his Chinese name, Mr. Lin Deng. He is Brian Linden, owner of the Linden Centre, an inn beside the paddy fields.

    It has been 16 years since this man from Chicago

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