Looking through my photos of Inner Mongolia from way back when, way back when skins were a different colour, hairs held a different way, smiles pressed distinctively, dispositions fearlessly optimistic.
Inner Mongolia, long and narrow, stretching from east to west, with a total area of 1.183 million sq km. On the map, its shape is like a galloping horse or a hovering eagle, the landlocked state guarding the northern border of China.
Inner Mongolia, rich in natural resources, regarded as a “treasure bowl” and figuratively generalised as bearing grain in the south, animal husbandry in the north, forest in the east, iron in the west and coal, just coal everywhere.
Wan Phing Lim 