Ge Yi was from Chabug Village in Gêrzê County. Before he became Party branch secretary of Nuxtiu Village, his family had more than 400 sheep and 100 yak, making them one of the wealthy families in the village.

When John Ross, an anthropologist who had been working with Spokane people for thirty years, took me to the studio of George Flett, I saw my first ledger drawing.

It really ticks me off when people don't use proper punctuation.

...yet it is always a wise precaution in defending a frontier of hundreds of miles to bar off as much as possible by fortifications, and thus economise the use of troops in sedentary roles and canalise potential invasion.