Between Winds and Clouds

The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)

Bin Yang

 

Map 2.3 The Southwest Silk Road in the Yuan-Ming-Qing Period

Adapted by the Journal of World History. Based on Lu Ren, Yunnan Duiwai Jiaotongshi (A history of the communication between Yunnan and foreign countries) (Kunming: Yunnan Minzu Press, 1997), 7; John Deyell, "The China Connection: Problems of Silver Supply in Medieval Bengal," in Money and the Market in India 1100–1700, ed. Sanjay Subrahmanyam (Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994), 134.

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