Checklist: Try not to scare small children. Contemplate the steamed fish heads. Find the pandas. Chengdu, southwestern China’s largest city, is an unlikely portal to Shangri-La. Most days, its layers of acrid smog lie under an equally heavy gray mist, like the garua in Lima, Peru. Summer temperatures often reach a humid 95 F. The air is miasmic. Even at an
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