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Month: July 2019

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Fieldwork Part 3: Mangkang and Leiwuqi

by Caitlyn Witkowski on Monday July 29th, 2019

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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