My journey starts on 30th Jan from 香格里拉 Shangri-La, visiting villages and talking about their way of life, on my way to Dali, where I meet an ethnic minority, and another village or two.
Next is a traditional Tibetan wedding in a village in the mountains of Sichuan. Then it's back to the bicycle, now in Guangdong, where I base my countryside tour on the town of Chunwan, from where I go to some of the villages nearby, one of which is celebrating a granny's 70th birthday! (Great logistics; I leave all my luggage in the hotel, and cycle off for the day, out tio the sticks.)
While here, I spend a few days in Hong Kong to renew my visa, and then I'm off to Hunan.
Later on, I hope to go Nánkāi University in Tianjin, before then heading to Beijing for the Fourth 'International Forum on Democracy,' run by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences 中国社会科学院 (tbc).