title: Grandma Panda's China Storybook: Legends, Traditions, and Fun
author:  Mingmei Yip 
description: "The illustrations are vivid and cute, and the book teaches about traditional stories in a fun and accessible way for kids." <b><i>Bicultural Mama</i> blog</b>
zlib_text: ![](Images/image00183.jpeg)
  
  For my mother and father
  
  >  _Shan gao huangdi yuan:_
  
  > The mountains are high and the emperor far away
  
  Traditional Chinese proverb
  
  Contents
  
  Map
  
  Introduction
  
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  Part I: XINJIANG – THE NEW FRONTIER
  
  1 ‘Uighurs Are Like Pandas’
  
  2 The New Silk Road
  
  3 Exiles
  
  4 The Great Game Again
  
  5 Return to Kashgar
  
  6 Three Borders
  
  7 Uighurstan
  
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  Part II: TIBET – THE WILD WEST
  
  8 The Tibetan Borderlands
  
  9 Lhasa
  
  10 A Night at the Nangma
  
  11 U-Tsang
  
  12 High Plateau Drifter
  
  13 The Precious Jewel of the Snows
  
  14 Going Down
  
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  Part III: YUNNAN – TROUBLE IN PARADISE
  
  15 Shiny Happy Minorities
  
  16 Dailand
  
  17 Down the Mekong
  
  18 The Dai Diaspora
  
  19 With the Wa
  
  20 Women for Sale
  
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  Part IV: DONGBEI – PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES
  
  21 The Pyongyang Express
  
  22 The Third Korea
  
  23 Spreading the Word
  
  24 The Arctic Borderlands
  
  25 Along the Amur
  
  26 An Empire Expanding
  
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  Further Reading
  
  Acknowledgements
  
  ![](Images/image00184.jpeg)
  
  Introduction
  
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