Yunnan - China's most beautiful province

Yunnan was not always China: indeed not so long ago large parts of Yunnan were only nominally part of the empire. To make Yunnan, outside the main Han cities, a Chinese province required significant effort. Here Giersch's study on Yunnan's hinterland makes an interesting if academic read.

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Once an important salt-mining town, now the second largest town along the Heihui River north of Yangbi.