Yunnanfu to the Coast Map 1904
Posted: September 6th, 2012 | 3 Comments »Here’s a map – rather roughly hand drawn – entitled Yunnanfu (now Kunming) across to the coast. It was published in Shanghai in the North China Herald on December 9th 1904. There’s a lot to notice obviously – the boundaries of Yunnan province with French Indochina as well as the borders with the provinces of Kweichow (Guizhou) and Kwangsi (Guangxi). Kunming Lake is included in the top left and the route to the Yangtze. You can look up the others. Yunnan at this time was a tin mining centre so commodities were important over a century ago!!
Very cool, Paul.
Thanks for this article.
I have collected something like 15.000 old Yunnan photos (pre 1950’s) and plenty of maps. This one was new.
One day when there is time, I may as well start writing something about them on the world wide web. Its all nostalgia now, Will pass a note then.
Theres one really nostalgic Yunnan map somewhere in the labyrinths of the Internet. I tried to find it now, to put a link here, but a quick search didnt bring results.
Its H.R Davies (Major Davies) map on Yunnan, (Yün-Nan), which he compiled, when he was doing intelligence for the British in 1905 or so. Edgar Snow hyped about it’s magic and mystery, – that he used to look at it like watching the stars for hours on a clear night: “You could watch it for hours”. With the untaimed “Lolo” areas, “tribes”, silver mountain peaks, red rivers, colourful opium fields and walled cities since Ming.
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