{"product_id":"the-mountains-are-high-a-year-of-escape-and-discovery-in-rural-china","title":"The Mountains Are High: A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China","description":"\u003ch4 dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eby Alec Ash\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, ‘reverse migrating’ from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China — and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self-discovery.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Mountains Are High\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Alec Ash's second book and an NPR Book of the Year for 2024, is a reported memoir from Dali, China. It narrates Ash's first year of living in this rural valley in China’s southwestern Yunnan province, centred around a great lake and overlooked by a high mountain range. Here, Ash met the Chinese who are ‘reverse migrating’ from the cities to the countryside ― and joins them himself after leaving Beijing, in an inspiring journey of self-discovery. In Dali, bohemian hippies and political dissidents are rejecting the worst parts of modernity and living more simply, in tune with the natural world and away from the nexus of authoritarian power. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Mountains Are High\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a reflective, candid memoir about how reevaluating what is really important, and taking a leap of faith to reach it, can genuinely transform your life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Mountains Are High\u003c\/em\u003e is a gorgeously written meditation on seeking freedom in an unfree country. Even if you think you know China, you will be surprised by Alec Ash’s exploration of an unlikely community of spiritual seekers, dreamers and dissidents, stoners and dropouts, tucked deep in the mountains of Yunnan Province.\"– Barbara Demick, author of Nothing to Envy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"飛地·紐西蘭 Nowhere Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48898345304299,"sku":null,"price":48.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0825\/0746\/4939\/files\/TheMountainsareHigh.png?v=1781840598","url":"https:\/\/nowherebookstorenz.myshopify.com\/zh\/products\/the-mountains-are-high-a-year-of-escape-and-discovery-in-rural-china","provider":"飛地·紐西蘭 Nowhere Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}