Tao

"Far from Beijing and the economic explosion in the coastal cities, there is another China - join an unlikely vagabond couple as they explore its badlands on this journey into the interior." "As protests swirl in the cities and all foreign faces arouse suspicions, venturesome young Japanese student Aya Goda travels deep into the interior of China. There she falls in with the charismatic and combative wandering painter Cao, whose work is initially tolerated by the Chinese authorities and then banned, suddenly flipping the couple over onto the wrong side of the law. With the police on their tails, the pair criss-cross the vastnesses of middle China and push up into Tibet, where Cao has been trained as a sky-burial master. By truck and by jalopy, biplane and train, dodging bandits and bureaucrats alike, the pair take a high-line, high-risk journey through the vast lands of southern and western China. Like some East Asian Cassady and Kerouac, Cao and Goda are wild kindred spirits in search of enlightenment and freedom, and Goda's prose permits the reader to share their every intrepid step and twist, and to taste some tangily different flavours of modern China."--BOOK JACKET.Goda, Aya is the author of 'Tao', published 2000 under ISBN 9788477651772 and ISBN 8477651779.