The Chonggu Monastery in Yading National Park in Daocheng county, Sichuan province. People were convinced that James Hilton had based Shangri-La on a real place and expeditions (including one in 1938, sent by the Nazi regime in Germany) have gone to look for it. The story was soon made into an Oscar winning Hollywood movie with Frank Capra directing and Hollywood's most bankable actor, Ronald Colman, in the lead role. It became the first book to be mass produced in paperback. Conway and his companions are rescued and taken to Shangri-La where each finds contentment though they are not free to leave.ĪLSO READ: World's top 10 happiest countries In the book, star English diplomat Hugh Conway and three others are kidnapped in a stolen airliner that takes them from Kabul to a crash landing in the Kunlun Mountains in Xinjiang of western China. It is described as some hidden valley with a lamasery overlooking it and a perfect snow-coned peak rising above, whose inhabitants have learned the secret of inner peace and extraordinary long life. The word first appears in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon, written by English author James Hilton. Xuan Ke, musicologist and a son of Joseph Rock's secretary The place described in the book Lost Horizon has never been disclosed, but we knew it was Muli and the surrounding area Is it an earthly paradise? A hotel chain? A Chinese city or town? A Tibetan Utopia? Shangri-La, something people know but can't define.
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