The answer lies in the West itself. Now obsessed with China ... Before the modern era, he says, China’s culture had a kind of “total condition, with philosophy, aesthetics, moral understanding ...

I've come to realize I will never fully belong in Chinese culture, just as I will never quite fit into the mold of my American upbringing either.

As the Chinese saying goes: "The cries of apes on both banks cannot stop the swift boat from gliding past ten thousand hills." No amount of Western propaganda can undo Xizang's progress.