H. R. Davies (1865-1950) was an English army officer and member of the British intelligence service. Between 1894 and 1900 he was asked by the British government to lead survey expeditions into the modern Chinese province of Yunnan to discover possible routes for a railway connecting British-occupied Burma with the upper Yangtze river and through to Sichuan. This book contains an account of his travels though Yunnan province, written as a travelogue and first published in 1909. The region had been little explored by westerners before Davies' expeditions, and this is the first detailed description of Yunnan from a European traveller. The society, diverse indigenous cultures, geography, economy and political situation of the province are described in detail, with an introductory three chapters on the political context of the expeditions, and on railway construction in south-east Asia in the late nineteenth century.
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7 Tables, black and white; 74 Plates, black and white; 2 Maps
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Höhe: 229 mm
Breite: 152 mm
Dicke: 36 mm
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978-1-108-01079-5 (9781108010795)
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1. Yuen-nan and its communications; 2. Railway projects from Burma into China; 3. The Yuen-nan railway; 4. Nam-kham and Moeng Mow; 5. Moeng Mow to Manwaing and Bhamo; 6. Rangoon to Sadon; 7. Sadon to T'eng-yueeh T'ing (Momien); 8. T'eng-yueeh T'ing to Yung-ch'ang Fu; 9. Yung-ch'ang Fu to Ta-li Fu; 10. Ta-li Fu through Shun-ning Fu to Kun-long Ferry; 11. Kun-long to Ssu-mao; 12. Ssu-mao and P'u-erh; 13. P'u-erh to Keng-ma; 14. Keng-ma to Bhamo via Mang-shih; 15. Bhamo to T'eng-yueeh; 16. The Upper Shweli and the Salween; 17. Yung-ch'ang Fu to Taw-nio and Kun-long; 18. Kun-long to Yuen Chou via Chen-k'ang; 19. Yuen Chou to Ta-li Fu; 20. Ta-li Fu to Yuen-nan Fu; 21. Yuen-nan Fu to Wei-ning Chou; 22. From Wei-ning Chou back to Yuen-nan Fu via Tung-ch'uan Fu; 23. Yuen-nan Fu to the Red River; 24. Through Tong-king; 25. Myitkyina to T'eng-yueeh via Sima; 26. T'eng-yueeh to P'u-erh; 27. From P'u-erh to Yuen-nan Fu; 28. Across the Yangtze to Hui-li Chou; 29. Up the Chien-ch'ang Valley; 30. Westward from Mien-ning Hsien; 31. Mi-li, the land of the yellow lama; 32. Mi-li to Chung-tien; 33. Chung-tien to A-tun-tzu; 34. The Mekong valley on the Tibetan border; 35. Ya'k'a-lo to Ba-t'ang; 36. Our attempt to cross the Mekong; 37. Ya-k'a-lo to Ya-ra-gong; 38. Ya-ra-gong to Li-t'ang; 39. Li-t'ang to Ya-chou Fu via Ta-chien-lu; 40. Ya-chou Fu to Shanghai; 41. Captain Watts-Jones' last journey; Appendices; Index.
