Tall Stories 513: Finding paradise in the real Shangri-La

from The Urbanist · host Monocle

Tom Webb takes us to the Chinese city named after the fictional 1933 literary paradise of Shangri-La to sort fact from fiction. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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