<正>FATE endowed China’s diminu-tive, landlocked province of Guizhou in its southern interior with an outsized significance to modern China. Several factors have conspired to largely shield the region from foreign eyes, and being one of Chi-na’s poorest provinces, it has been slow to modernize and shape its future. That is precisely what transfi xes certain kinds of travelers. The sense is that much of the region is "untouched," and that