Yunnan - China's most beautiful province


Early Maps of Yunnan

The history of maps in Yunnan began more than a thousand years ago. But it was the Jesuits who revolutionised mapping in China, producing the first accurate maps of the provinces, including remote Yunnan.



A Lahu minority Christian service in a hill village near Menglian.


Jim Goodman: Children of the Jade Dragon: the Naxi of Lijiang and their mountain neighbours the Yi

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In the first half of the 1990s Lijiang had barely made its appearance on the Chinese tourism stage, even less so the then remote mountains of Ningland and Lugu Lake. Jim Goodman's account of the Naxi and the Yi draws back to a time where not everything was staged for mass tourism: an account of a lost world.


A number of Chinese historic texts covering life and politics in Yunnan have survived over the centuries. I have translated a few of them.

Extremely beautiful Wenchang Temple, created in part by national level Intangible Cultural Heritage transmitter Li Yunyi.



Unspoiled Weishan boast Yunnan's most beautiful county town, an important Taoist mountain and areas of strong Muslim and Yi tradition.


Liao Yiwu: God is Red: The Secret Story of How Christianity Survived and Flourished in Communist China

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Liao Yiwu, one of China's most prominent dissidents, was driven out of China, but not before he used a period of internal exile to research Christian groups, mainly in Yunnan. In this book he tells the stories of the Christians of Dali and of Wuding county.


A history trading post on the upper reaches of the Yangzi.

Markets this Tuesday

Kunming 昆明
Kedu 柯渡镇

Dali 大理
Duomei 朵美
Junhua 均化
Fuheng 富恒
Liandong 炼洞
Yongping 永平县
Shanyang 衫阳
Fengyu 风羽
Guanping 关平
Liuhe 六合
Baofeng 宝丰乡
Heqing 鹤庆县
Madeng 马镫
Binju 宾居
Shuijing 水井
Shuanglang 双廊镇
Zuòyì 作邑
Caojian 漕间
Dacang 大仓镇
Midian 米甸镇
寅街村
龙洞村
Shalong 沙龙镇
Deju 德苴乡
Longjie 龙街
Junhuacun 均华村
西庄
Xiazhuang 下庄镇

Lijiang 丽江
Liming 黎明

Dehong 德宏
Lianghe 梁河县
Kachang 卡场镇

Honghe 红河
Mengla 勐拉
Wantang 湾塘乡
Caoba 草坝镇
Sancun 三村
Mingjiu 鸣鹫镇
Wuwan 乌弯
Daheigong 大黑公
Xinjie 新街
Dayangjie 大羊街
Maandi 马鞍底

Wenshan 文山
Shadou 沙斗
Jiayi 稼依镇
Nijiao 腻脚彝族乡
Jijie 鸡街乡
Donggan 董干镇
Tienpeng 田蓬镇

Chuxiong 楚雄
Gaoqiao 高桥镇
Dalongkou 大龙口乡
Mixing 弥兴镇

Baoshan 保山市
Wafang 瓦房彝族白族乡
Mangbang 芒棒

Lincang 临沧
Yongde 永德县
Danjia 单甲乡
Lushi 鲁史
Fuhe 复合
Mengdui 孟堆乡

Qujing 曲靖市
Dahai 大海乡
Daibu 待补镇
Huohong 火红乡
Jiache 驾车乡
Nagu 娜姑镇
迤车
Zhehai 者海镇

Zhaotong 昭通
Shuanghe 双河

Yuxi 玉溪
Jiasa 戛洒镇
Tadian 塔甸
Mosha 漠沙镇
Xingmeng 兴蒙
Hexi 河西

Nujiang 怒江
Gudeng 古登
Bingzhongluo 丙中洛
Lishadi 利沙底乡

Puer 普洱
Mangxin 芒信镇
Qiannuo 千糯

Diqing 迪庆
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