ABSTRACT
The voyage seemed endless. After leaving Cuba the ship crossed the Caribbean and the South Atlantic, plodded across the Mediterranean, negotiated the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, and slowly worked its way through the South China Sea to Canton. Tashi Tsering wanted to return to Tibet to help his people, but that first he hope he would be allowed to continue his studies at a Chinese university, he hoped at Beijing University. The name of the school had been sent to was the Tibetan Minority Institute, which he learned had been established in 1957. There were about twenty-five hundred students at the university, almost all Tibetans. Finally he arrived at Xian, one of the oldest cities in China, and slightly beyond it was Xianyang, which was to be my home for the immediate future. It was called labor transformation What it meant was that periodically people all had to go and work in the fields on nearby farms.
