In the footsteps of Joseph Rock 重走洛克路

Sunday, June 24, 2007

Muli valley to be flooded

Sad news. The Muli river valley is to be flooded with the creation of six dams by China Hydro. This maps shows the location of the dams, with several between the old monasteries of Waerdje (here marked as Muli Sanqu) and Muli monastery.

Map of planned dam of Muli river valley, Sichuan

A larger, high definition version of this map can be downloaded here.

Naxi Dongba ceremony, Muli, 2005

Joseph Rock would be pleased to see that the Naxi ceremonies he studied and recorded are again being held near his old home north of Lijiang. [All pics are from the local Muli newspaper, the Liangshan Ribao].

On the road to "Dream Mountain":

Naxi women are not allowed to take part but in 2005 they attended for the first time.

Men chant with the dongba;

The old shamen presides:

At home with the dongba [priest]:

Yi people hit by mudslide in Muli, 2005

These photos are from the website of the country paper, the Liangshan Ribao.

Yi people near Muli mourn their relatives killed my a mudslide.

Yi people in mourning after mudlside, Liangshan region, 2005

Yi people displaced by mudlside, Muli, 2005.

Yi people after mudlside, Liangshan region, 2005

County leader inspects mudslide relief work, Muli, 2005

Friday, June 22, 2007

Maidi Gangga, 2005

Maidi Gangga, 2005, originally uploaded by jiulong.

An old picture I found as a negative and scanned.

Wuxu Hai, 2005

Wuxu Hai, 2005, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Mundon village, Yalong canyon, Sichuan 2005

Mundon village, Yalong canyon, Sichuan 2005, originally uploaded by jiulong.

Sunday, June 17, 2007

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Dali Yunnan, climbing the Cangshan peaks, 1990

Dali Yunnan, climbing the Cangshan peaks, 1991, originally uploaded by jiulong.

A few pics from my first visit to China in October 1990 [not 1991 as it says on the rest of the pics). We climbed the ridge above Dali at a time when it didn't have any chair lifts or marked paths. We cheated by taking a tuolaji tractor about half way up.
At that tuime Dali was just taking of as a backpacker destination - it had Jim's cafe and one other cafe if I remember rightly. And that was it.