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China’s Minorities

Volume 2, Number 1 • Spring 2000

Inside the Issue

Matters of the Heart . . . and the Nation

Daniel Wright spent two years in Guizhou, China on a fellowship that allowed him to study the people and societies of inland China. As he spoke with people, they expressed to him, in a variety of ways, the crisis of faith that has come with the erosion of belief in communism. The following is the account of his visit to Shimenkan, a township of the Big Flowery Miao.