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Index
- A draft version of my book "In the footsteps of Joseph Rock"
- Chapter 1: How it all started
- Chapter 2: The young Joseph Rock and China
- Chapter 3: First visits to Kunming and Dali (1990)
- Chapter 4: Muli, Land of the Yellow Lama (1994)
- Chapter 5: Glories of the Minya Konka (1995)
- Chapter 6: The lost mountain of Muti Konka (麦地贡嘎)
- Chapter 7: The Great River Trenches of Asia (The Mekong)
- Chapter 8: Great River Trenches: Salween (Nujiang)
- Chapter 9: Yading Holy Mountains of the Outlaws
- Chapter 10: Seeking the Mountains of Mystery, Choni monastery, Radja and Amnye Machen
- How Joseph Rock's writings inspired 'Shangri-La'
About this blog
Dr Joseph Rock was an Austrian-born American botanist, anthropologist and explorer. He lived in South West China from the 1920s to 1949. During that time he went on many expeditions to remote parts of the Tibetan borderlands, collecting plants, taking photographs and collating maps. He described his trips in several articles in the National Geographic journal. After reading his articles, I was inspired to revisit places he described in Sichuan and Yunnan such as Muli, Yading, Deqin and Gongga Shan. This blog describes my travels and compares Rock's pictures with ones I have taken in the same places.
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Links
- China Medical News
- Photos by Raul Gutierrez
- Alou - Your guide to Dimaluo
- My maps of Yunnan and Sichuan
- Joseph Rock's images
- Joseph Rock photos on Flickr
- Chinabackpacker (great maps)
- Hunt Institute Archives
- Kham Aid
- The Arnold Arboretum
- People and Places (doco)
- Red Rock Treks
- Haiwei Trails
- Khampa Caravan (trekking )
About Me
- Michael Woodhead
- Sydney, Australia
- Journalist, originally from Leeds. Contact me on mutikonka[AT]gmail.com
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2 comments:
The cantilevered bridge and riverside stonework must all be very recent, none of that was around when we visited in 2005.
Still, an impressive monument.
Yes there's a lot of reburbishment/upgrading going on at the Labrang monastery complex. The bridge was actually in the middle of a lot of construction work. I heard that the provincial government is spending millions of rmb on the temple as a way of gaining favour and 'preserving harmony'.
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