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Sweating in the blistering tropical heat, I slowed my three- speed rental bike and swung off the paved river road down a rough dirt lane. An hour outside of Jinghong, capital of Xishuangbanna Dai Nationality Autonomous Prefecture in southern Yunnan, I was following the Lancangjiang (Mekong River) as it flowed down the length of the province and out into the belly of Southeast Asia.
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Grumbine, R.E. (2010). In the Land of Twelve Thousand Rice Fields. In: Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-59726-811-0_5
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