Mads Vesterager Nielsen recently returned to Beijing after a four-month motorbike trip across 17 Chinese provinces — from the Yellow Sea to Shaanxi to Qinghai, then south through Sichuan along the Yangtze River before following the Long March route back to Beijing — and he has stories. Lots of them.

For two weeks, he was joined by local poet Anthony Tao, and together they traveled the historic Hexi Corridor from Xi’an to Dunhuang, along the way meeting a panoply of people whose stories, taken together, tell us something different about this country we know as China.

In this unique collaboration, Mads will recount highlights from his trip while Anthony shares poems written from the road. You’ll hear about abandoned communes, churches in the wild, a town named Treasured Chicken (宝鸡), run-ins with cops and COVID, a scooter accident, Lanzhou nightclubs, the Mother River, Buddhist grottoes, and all the ways one can die on a Chinese highway.

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