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Footsteps on cobblestone echo down narrow passageways, damp dawn air is scented with wood smoke, a black- caped Naxi nationality woman in a blue Mao cap carries a sack of mushrooms to the morning market. Arriving early, she spreads a tarp on the smooth cobbles, dumps the fungi out. Fresh Coprinus mushrooms from Yunnan pine woods. She removes a thin metal hand-scale from her bag and sits to wait for the first customer. Soon the haggling will begin.
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Grumbine, R.E. (2010). Under the Jade Dragon. In: Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River. Island Press, Washington, DC. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-59726-811-0_3
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