CHAPTER 1 PRESERVING TRADITIONS A Tajik Wedding on the Pamir Plateau A Potter Breaks the Rules to Save His Tradition A Tuvan Youth Band and Their Love of Music Kalak�� a Kirgiz Woman's Proud Headwear CHAPTER 2 A TASTE OF XINJIANG The Man Who Roasts Golden Goose Eggs When Russian Khleb Meets Xinjiang Lamb An Old Kashgar's Secret Recipe for Kebabs and Life Happy Days at a SmailTown lce Cream Stall The Unbearable Sweetness of Being Kashgar's Signature Food Is Far from Being Half-baked CHAPTER 3 SONGS FROM THE PASTURES Migrant Melon Farmers Reap What They Sow Good Shepherds and Lost Lambs Saving Lives on the Winter Pasture Summer in the Wakhan Corridar Love on the Bawzader Pasture CHAPTER 4 EVERYDAY HEROES A Four-generation Promise to Guard China's Border Granny Pan's After-schoalC[ub Making Sounds out of Silence An Unmarried Mother's Selfless Love for Orphans CHAPTER 5 IN THE WIND AND SAND Life in the \"Sea of Death\" Building a Highway Across the \"Sea of Death\" Fishing for Fortune in the Gobi Desert The Guardian of the Great Green Wall CHAPTER 6 DREAMING BIG Passing on the Footbali Dream Rowing to the Arctic Ocean An Amateur FootbaIl Team's Manchester United Ambition Lights! Camera! Sheep?! A Very Xinjiang Comedy CHAPTER 7 EMBRACING MODERNIZATION Xinjiang Herders Embrace E-commerce Convenience The Last Steam Train Drivers Farewell�� Karakoram Mountains! Xinjiang's Hearts and Minds Open up on the Silk Road