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mdp.39015027795585	Johnston, Reginald Fleming.	From Peking to Mandalay : a journey from north China to Burma through Tibetan Ssuchʻuan and Yunnan by R.F. Johnston	1908		.txt	text/plain	111874	6908	79	we hear a great deal just now about the difficulties placed by Chinese officialdom in the way of the Min river (which enters the Yangtse at Hsüchou-fu) as far as Chia-ting, a distance from ascend at all times of the year as far as Ch'éngtu, the capital of Ssuch'uan, a distance of 183 that strikes every European observer as characteristic of China to-day, it is a significant fact in the names of villages and passes, means Mountain, and Rong Valley. powerful non-Chinese race inhabiting a great part The word is a Chinese approximation to the Tibetan Nya Rong ("Valley of the all the great trough-like river-valleys of southwestern China have acquired a similar reputation inhabited by a race known to the Chinese as Minchia, which simply means "the people" or "the non-Chinese races in south China: Lolo, Shan 4 miles west of Man-hsien in Chinese territory.	./cache/mdp.39015027795585.pdf	./txt/mdp.39015027795585.txt