Yunnan: Chinas Schönste Provinz

by Ann Helen Unger, Walter Unger

The book portrays the mountainous southwestern Chinese region bordering Tibet to the north, Myanmar to the west, Laos and Vietnam to the south and the provinces of Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi to the east. In five richly illustrated chapters it describes the extraordinarily diverse landscape, the history, customs and lifestyles of 26 different nationalities that call Yunnan home. Their religious beliefs, their agriculture and their future will be determined mainly by tourism and industrial development. Writer Ann Helen Unger and photographer Walter Unger, both Germans living in Bangkok and New York, are well known for several books on Southeast Asia religions, cultures, history and ethnology.

Genres: China

259 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2001