Fieldwork Part 3: Mangkang and Leiwuqi Following our adventures in southern China (see our first blog post) and our gathering of the Tibet fellowship (see our second blog), we then set off for Mangkang and later Leiquqi. From Lhasa, we flew closer to Mangkang, arriving at the airport of many names (Bangda, Changdu, Qamdo, Chamdo), …

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The UMBRELLA team assembled even more of its members leading up to the second leg of this latest Spring 2019 expedition in China, meeting first in Xishuangbanna in Yunnan province and then Beijing before continuing on our journey to Tibet. First stop: Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Yunnan province …

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