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Today, we’re going to talk about a complex individual who came to China in the early 1920s as an agricultural explorer. The success of his early work in Yunnan Province and his love for the region led to nearly three decades of expeditions and the creation of an unmatched body of work on the Naxi people and the remote area they inhabit.
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