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Mapping Shangrila

Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

By Emily T. Yeh, Christopher R. Coggins, Stevan Harrell, Ralph A. Litzinger

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023

In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila—a place that previously had existed only in fiction—had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan,...