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'''Shangri-La''' ('''香格里拉''') is an earthly paradise located in southwest China's Yunnan Province.

The name first appeared in the 1933 novel "Lost Horizon" by British author James Hilton, who described the place as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.

From then on, though many wondered where Shangri-La was actually located, efforts to find it were in vain. Someone once claimed that the mystery would not be solved until the 21st century.

In 1996, '''Xuan Ke''', a renowned scholar in [[China]] and recipient of honorary doctorates in anthropology and folk music, pointed out that the description of "Shangri-La" in James Hilton's book matched that of a place in [[Zhongdian County]] of Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan – not only in landscape but also in customs.

Later on, in collaboration with experts, a tourism company in Yunnan and two corporations from Singapore spent a year conducting research to prove Xuan's theory.

On September 25, [[1997]], Shangri-La was determined to be located in [[Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture]], [[Yunnan Zhuang Autonomous Region]], after Xuan's theory was approved by the academic community. The mystery of the century had finally been solved.

[[Category:Attractions]] [[Category:Yunnan]]

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imported>Ciic at 03:33, 13 January 2014