Global Economics Stressed Chinese Head for the Hills

摘要

Six years ago, Bei Yi did something many people considered crazy. He quit a high-paying job in Shanghai as a manager at an industrial glass company, sold his car and apartment, and left one of China's most desirable cities. His destination: the town of Lijiang, deep in China's poor southwest province of Yunnan, once a place of banishment for those who ran afoul of the emperor.