When the civil war of China ended in 1949, Tibetans carried bags of silver dollars on a long journey along a thousand-year old path through the mountains on an important mission: to ensure their tea supply. Emily Zhou reports
THE PEOPLE OF TIBET and the surrounding high-plateau lands had a problem.
They needed tea.…
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