WHEN we sat down facing each other, I could hardly believe this woman was the former Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People’s Government, now Vice-Secretary of the autonomous regional Committee of the CPC and its committee of the CPPCC. This plain looking and soberly dressed woman is Pasang, a high official grown from a serf. Looking at her weather-worn face, I guessed her age. What surprised me is WHEN we sat down facing each other, I could hardly believe that woman was the former Vice Chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Regional People’s Government, now Vice-Secretary of the autonomous regional Committee of the CPC and its committee of the CPPCC. This plain looking and soberly dressed woman is Pasang, a high official grown from a serf. Looking at her weather-worn face, I guessed her age. What surprised me is