云南杂志

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Current Edition -- From the cave cultures of Wen Shan to the headhunting Wa Yunnan Magazine's eighth edition, Shelter, explores living spaces south of the clouds.

Whereas “shangrila” seems etched in the collective conscious as “paradise”, it is Tao Qian’s “Peach Blossom Spring” that has come to symbolize “utopia”. Similarly, when compared to the soaring Himalayan peaks of Yunnan’s northwest, the astonishing topography of the southeast seems to better represent “geographic utopia”.

Dominated by the crumbling turrets of karst, Southeast Yunnan is a land of isolated mountain peaks, permeated by rivers, lakes, wide basins, thousands of the caves, and relative seclusion. Since ancient times people from an array of cultures within China have been migrating here in search of shelter. The diverse peoples of this land have not only co-existed as communities, but have flourished in a bizarre topographic environment. This, I suppose, is the lesson learned from finding refuge within chaos...read more