Kham then and now. How Southwest China looked in the 1920s and when revisited from 1991-2025 by Michael Woodhead of Sydney, Australia. Based on the explorations of botanist Joseph Rock.
Monday, November 10, 2014
Cizhong, Yunnan 茨中
Pic of the Catholic church taken from its vineyard, October 2014. Sony A7 digital camera and Leitz 50mm Summicron lens.
Dr Joseph Rock was an Austrian-American botanist who explored the Tibetan borderlands of Sichuan and Yunnan in the 1920s and 30s. This is about my travels to revisit the places he described in the National Geographic magazine. Any questions? contact me at beijingweek AT gmail
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