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Ep. 332 | The History of Yunnan Province (Part 5)

The China History Podcast

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The Myth of the Yunnan Trade Potential

Yunnan used to be part of the famous Golden Triangle, infamous for opium poppy cultivation and processing into narcotic drugs. After 1949, the Chinese Communists went in and cleaned all that up inside the PRC border. In 1905, Kunming became a commercial inland port. By the early 20th century, most foreign business concerns moved on to other less hostile places. The myth began to cover all of Southwest China, particularly Sichuan.

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