Citations:Yunnan

English citations of Yunnan

Yunnan Province

• 1701, Joan Luyts, Herman Moll, A System of Geography, Part the Second‎^[1], London, →OCLC, page 48:

  On the South of this Province appears that of Junnang or Yunnan, divided into twelve Parts, whoſe chief Cities are, Yunnan the Capital of the whole Province ; Lingan ; Chinchian ; Cuivag ; Quanſi ; Juenkiam ; Chinyuen ; Xunnim ; Mumhoa ; Tali ; Chimtien ; Jummim : This Province is one of the richeſt, being ſtored with the beſt Metals, precious Stones, Musk and Silk ; and hath ſeventy five other Cities.

• 1832 June, Le Ming-che Tsing-lae, “Ta Tsing Wan-neen Yih-tung King-wei Yu-too,—"A general geographical map, with degrees of latitude and longitude, of the Empire of the Ta-tsing Dynasty—may it last for ever."”, in The Chinese Repository‎^[2], volume I, number 2, Canton, →OCLC, page 38:

  The river next in size to the Hwang-ho and Yang-tsze-keang, is the Se-keang or Western river, which rises in the mountains of Yunnan, and passing under various names through that province and the adjoining one of Kwangse, enters Kwangtung, where it unites with the Pih-keang, or Northern river, and with a minor stream, at San-shwuy, or ‘the three streams,’ a little to the west of Canton.

• 1898, Archibald R. Colquhoun, “The Geographical Question”, in China in Transformation‎^[3], Harper & Brothers, →OCLC, page 14:

  The province of Yunnan lies in the extreme southwest of the Empire, its southern and western borders forming the northern frontiers of Tongking and Burma respectively. On the north it is bordered by Szechuan, and on the east by Kweichau and Kwangsi. It is the third largest province of the Empire, its area measuring 122,000 square miles, but, as elsewhere remarked, owing to the devastatations^{[sic – meaning devastations]} of the Mohammedan rebellion and ensuing plague, its population has been greatly reduced, and now is not more than 6,000,000. Yet its mineral wealth is greater and more varied than that of any other province. Its capital is Yunnan, between which town and Burma a considerable trade is carried on.

• 1908, Reginald Fleming Johnston, From Peking to Mandalay‎^[4], John Murray, page 157:

  I did not meet a single Chinese between Chê-to and Li-chiang in Yunnan¹- a journey that occupied about a month- and the Chinese language was entirely unknown.

• 1949, Chen Han-seng, Frontier Land Systems in Southernmost China‎^[5], Institute of Pacific Relations, pages 1-2:

  Just as the Miao and the Yao had been pressed into Indo-China, the Yi were pushed out of the more eastern provinces of China by the slow advance of the Chinese. In Yunnan the Yi have moved generally toward the south. Up to the time of Mongol conquest in western Yunnan, the Yi had concentrated their population in Tali and Yungchang (now Pao-shan), (4) but today there are very few Yi living in these two districts. The most concentrated Yi population is to be fond in southernmost parts of Yunnan, the region inhabited by the Pai Yi.

• 1957, Chung-cheng (Kai-shek) Chiang, “Development”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy‎^[6], New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 65:

  Hsu moved deeper into western Szechwan. Meanwhile Chu Teh, who had fled westward with Mao, turned toward Yunnan.

• 1973 February 18, “Maoists control Phong Saly”, in Free China Weekly‎^[7], volume XIV, number 6, Taipei, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:

  There are huge arsenals, magazines and armories in Phong Saly, all operated by the Chinese Communists.
  Over 200 trucks are shuttling between Phong Saly and Mengla, in southern Yunnan, to replenish the supply, the report said.

• 1977, K. P. Wang, Mineral Resources and Basic Industries in the People's Republic of China‎^[8], Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, →ISBN, page 189:

  In the Hsinhsiang District of Yunnan, twenty-odd plants produced a total of about 200,000 tons of chemical phosphates in 1973.

• 2021 August 11, “Elephants roaming China for months return to ‘suitable’ habitat”, in EFE‎^[9], archived from the original on 11 August 2021:

  Wild elephants that had been roaming the southern Chinese province of Yunnan for more than three months returned to a "more appropriate" habitat, Chinese experts told state media.