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 Arkhangai Aimag, Mongolia In 1941, in conjunction with a massive literacy drive and political expediency, Mongolia had replaced its centuries-old written language with a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet. Fifty years later, in classrooms all across the country, the ancient script was making a comeback. |
 Guangxi Province, China Old and black and seemingly indestructible, bicycles are as much fixtures of Chinese life as electric light switches are of an American day, invisible in their ubiquity. |
 Bich Dong, Vietnam It was an indecisive realm of mellifluous soil that parted before the advancing prow of our shallow skiff, a realm of waters so thick they are the liquid cousins of the land. � Everywhere, conical straw hats bobbed above backs bent in the perpetual planting and plucking of a life sustained from the earth. |
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by bicycle across Mongolia, China & Vietnam |