An anthology of folk songs from an area of the world known by most simply as the Borderlands. Performed by various singers, these songs are meant to bring to life the harsh beauty of the extreme north and western frontier of China.
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Song Name: Tibet: Miracle Of The Earth
Sung By: Basang

BORDERLANDS: A graphic novel about true and unconditional love. A man's journey through a vast and cruel frontier during a perilous time becomes a fight for the life of an entire country. Although this story is intended as a modern rendition and follows the pattern of the ancient Chinese classic "The Westward Journey of Xuanzang", "Borderlands" is a love story first and foremost, about a Chinese student named Zhao Zhongshan and his beloved Peruvian wife Isabel, whom he had brought back to his home country during the tumultuous years of the 1930s. His eternal and unconditional devotion to Isabel's honor and memory will take him across thousands of miles of hostile land, from the barren sun-scorched plateau of the Kurulun River Basin to the ancient Silk Road village of Akhtar, located at the extreme western fringe of China on the border of Muslim Turkestan. Here across this vast expanse of frontier, is the site of three almighty battles that will change the course of world history, fought between the years of 1931 and 1935. Zhao Zhongshan, already no stranger to death and strife, will have to make the biggest and most fateful decisions of his entire life.
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TIAN BIAN: (Mandarin Chinese) “Edge of Heaven”.
It is a vast country, stretching from the green, windswept prairies of Lower Mongolia just north of Beijing, across the deadly and hostile sands of the Takla Makan of Xinjiang, all the way to the arid and barren plateaus of the Tibetan Highlands. It is a land so high above sea level, that great clouds cling closely to the earth and travelers and horses often fall immobilized due to the lack of oxygen flowing to the lungs. Indeed, many claim that here, in this wild and vast territory, is where Heaven and Earth meet. It is a land of extraordinary beauty, where the great expanse of barren sand and rocks are frequently broken by mountainous formations stretching towards the sky, or else deep and vertical canyons opening up like gaping cracks miles wide leading down to the center of the Earth. Travelers across this brutal landscape are faced with relentless daytime heat under a scorching sun with almost no trees as cover. At night, gale force winds plummet temperatures to just around freezing. Those who can brave the conditions are then faced with starvation and thirst, blinding sandstorms that seem to come out of nowhere, and attacks by ruthless gangs of heavily armed bandits. It is a place most in the known world regarded with mystery and awe, and as the 3rd decade of the 20th century approached, who would have known, that the fate of the entire world will rest upon this vast expanse of land where so many have tried, and failed to tame. The country where Earth meets Heaven.

This is the story about a group of rugged men who have made this harsh frontier their home, and whose desperate and brutal struggle for freedom, liberty, and justice will determine the future of an entire nation.

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