One of the most frequented spots in Yunnan is the town of Lijiang.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travelogue 2005-2006 « Peace Corps: China] Reference

Obviously, a national approach to a frontier area such as Yunnan is too simplified.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Civil administration was left to the second pillar of the tripod system in Yunnan, that is, the provincial government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Nonetheless, while I retain the word Yunnan, one must bear in mind that Yunnan is a Chinese construct that exemplifies Chinese Orientalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The following section focuses on one distinctive issue in Yunnan, that is, the copper mining industry that served as a major artery in the Qing monetary system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Some of them arrived in Yunnan with their families.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The Han's presence in Yunnan certainly affected the local economy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Yunnan Kuangchan Tulue (An illustration of the copper mining in Yunnan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

With a series of measures, they pushed education in Yunnan into a new epoch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Local people in Yunnan in the Ming period began to call themselves the Yunnanese.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

As a result, copper cash began to circulate in Yunnan in 1626, competing with cowries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Fang Guoyu points out that cowries used in Yunnan were shipped from the coastal areas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Meanwhile, Yunnan is largely accepted to be an administrative and cultural part of China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Therefore, cowries circulating in Yunnan must have amounted to more than 1 billion pieces.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

"Yunnan Yong Haibei zuo Huobi de Lishi Kaocha" (A historical survey of the cowry in Yunnan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Hence, Tang's losses in Yunnan definitely increased its inability to handle internal crisis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

"Qingdai Yunnan Tongkuang Gongye" (The copper mining industry in Yunnan during the Qing dynasty).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

A rough estimate of the first generation of Ming military households in Yunnan would be over 800,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Most arable land in Yunnan was located in bazi that had been inhabited by the indigenous populations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Dian Lue recorded that festivals in Yunnan were celebrated in a similar way to those in China proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

A quick look at the names of villages in Yunnan illuminates the legacy of the Ming military colonization.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Note 3: For a complete translation of this section in Yunnan Zhilue, see Armijo-Hussein 1996, 131-149. back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

"Yunnan yong Bei zuo Huobi de Shidai ji Bei de Laiyuan" (The date and source of cowry as currency in Yunnan).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

This chapter will first discuss the production of silver in Yunnan, which played an important role in the Ming Empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

"Mingqing Shidai Yunnan de Yinke yu Yinchan'e" (Silver taxation and silver output in Yunnan during the Ming-Qing period).    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The case of cowry shows that political changes had a great influence on economic orientation in Yunnan during the Han time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

First, silver output in Yunnan contributed to the Ming monetization, which showed how the frontier began to serve the empire.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Chinese seed collectors found the small, yellow-flowered paraisometrum mileense growing in Yunnan Province in South West China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Optimus Prime seems to be pretty popular in Yunnan, China where his images can be seen from truck doors to t-shirts and badges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transformers Optimus Prime Modified Truck] Reference

Yunnan is a special case, a kind of test to which the whole process of Chinese cultural and political expansion can be subjected.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

On three separate occasions, the Ming state had attempted to establish mints in Yunnan, aiming to replace cowries with copper cash.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

See Shi Ji (thereafter SJ), juan 116, in Yunnan Shiliao Congkan (The collection of Yunnan historical sources, thereafter YNSLCK), ed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

All of these elements created a plural cultural unity in Yunnan, whose political ties with China were secured during the Ming period.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Xie Shengguan and Wu Daxun, both officials serving in Yunnan during the mid-eighteenth century, presented ample descriptions of them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

Although Yunnan is sandwiched between Southeast Asia, China, and Tibet, it once bore a closer relationship to mainland Southeast Asia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The continual development and the significance of silver mining in Yunnan during the Ming Dynasty can be reflected by mining taxation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

In addition, the behavior of women in Yunnan differed from their counterparts in China proper where virginity and chastity were valued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The number of military households in Yunnan was extremely large, because this frontier was vast in territory and diverse in topography.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between Winds and Clouds: The Making of Yunnan (Second Century BCE to Twentieth Century CE)] Reference

The Natural Conservancy, a leading US-based nonprofit organization, which studied the living conditions of black bears in Yunnan, helped Li apply for the surgery.    From Wordnik.com.  [China’s First Facial Transplant Patient Goes Home | Impact Lab] Reference