Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture County (formerly Weixi), and they all were under the administration of Lijiang. The Autonomous Prefecture was established in 1957 and named "Diqing" by its first governor. During the remainder of the 20th century, the prefecture's capital was called Zhongdian but was renamed on December 17, 2001 as Shangri-La City (other spellings: Semkyi'nyida, Xianggelila, or Xamgyi'nyilha) after the fictional land of Shangri-La in the 1933 James Hilton novel "Lost Horizon", with an eye toward promoting tourism in the area. On June 25, 2007 the Pudacuo National Park was established on in this prefecture. On January 11, 2014, there was a major
Paradise Lost (play) in two parts, on February 25 and March 4, 1971. The editor was Frank Herold and the play was recorded at Teletape Studios, NYC. Herold received a 1972 Emmy Award nomination for video editing. "Paradise Lost" was released on DVD in April 2002 by Kultur's DVD Broadway Theater Archive. According to Luther Adler in the presentation's intro, "Paradise Lost" was Clifford Odets' favorite and Harold Clurman considered it one of the six or seven really important contemporary American plays. Brooks Atkinson reviewed the play in "The New York Times" on December 10, 1935: "Paradise Lost" is more an exercise in