Yün-nan
The Link Between India and the Yangtze

A description of the Chinese province of Yunnan, written by H. R. Davies (1865–1950) and first published in 1909.

Henry Rodolph Davies (Author)

9781108010795, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 October 2010

618 pages, 74 b/w illus. 2 maps 7 tables
22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm, 0.9 kg

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.

1. Yün-nan and its communications
2. Railway projects from Burma into China
3. The Yün-nan railway
4. Nam-kham and Möng Mow
5. Möng Mow to Manwaing and Bhamo
6. Rangoon to Sadon
7. Sadon to T'êng-yüeh T'ing (Momien)
8. T'eng-yüeh 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 Ss?-mao
12. Ss?-mao and P'u-êrh
13. P'u-êrh to Kêng-ma
14. Kêng-ma to Bhamo viâ Mang-shih
15. Bhamo to T'êng-yüeh
16. The Upper Shweli and the Salween
17. Yung-ch'ang Fu to Taw-nio and Kun-long
18. Kun-long to Yün Chou viâ Chên-k'ang
19. Yün Chou to Ta-li Fu
20. Ta-li Fu to Yün-nan Fu
21. Yün-nan Fu to Wei-ning Chou
22. From Wei-ning Chou back to Yün-nan Fu viâ Tung-ch'uan Fu
23. Yün-nan Fu to the Red River
24. Through Tong-king
25. Myitkyina to T'eng-yüeh viâ Sima
26. T'eng-yüeh to P'u-êrh
27. From P'u-êrh to Yün-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-tz?
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 viâ Ta-chien-lu
40. Ya-chou Fu to Shanghai
41. Captain Watts-Jones' last journey
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Geography [RG]