Maps of China & Tibet

[GWR]

http://www.azagel.com/crail.html
http://www.railwaysofchina.com/
Map of Chinese railways. No idea how complete it is.
http://www.azagel.com/railmap.jpg

[GWR]

Info on Steam Trains in China:-
http://home.c2i.net/schaefer/chinarail.html
Big & slow loading GIF map that looks more complete. It even depicts the still unfinished line to Lhasa in Tibet.
http://www.nordling.nu/schaefer/chinamap.gif

[GWR]

Whole pages of maps & links for China & near neighbors like Thailand:-
http://www.chinapage.com/map/map.html
http://www.chinapage.com/map/map-strait.jpg

[airlana]

The Adventurous Travels Of Joseph Francis Rock

A fascinating portrait of Austrian explorer Joseph Rock and his adventures in the south-west of China from 1922 to 1949, with extraordinary footage. Joseph Francis Rock (1884-1962) arrived in China in 1922 and spent the best part of 30 years collecting plants, hunting birds, taking photographs, shooting films and exploring the mountainous regions of the south-west of China for various prestigious American institutions including the Department of Agriculture, the National Geographic society and Harvard University. When Rock first arrived in China, he made his headquarters in a small Naxi village near Lijiang in south-west China. There Rock discovered the Naxi priests, the Dongbas, and their religious pictographic script. Rock was fascinated and over the years he compiled a dictionary of the pictographic script. When the Second World War broke out, Rock refused to leave China, spending most of the war in Lijiang writing. Eventually Rock left Lijiang in 1944. On 5 December 1962, a month before the dictionary was published, Rock died of a heart attack in Honolulu surrounded by his beloved Naxi pictograms.


Some of his maps available here
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~chgis/data/other/rock/

and for some stunning photos [must be close to 200 pics]
http://pratyeka.org/rock/
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[GWR]

This site is stuffed full of those rather pictorial maps that the Chinese favor. They are obviously atlas scans, but still useful for quick info searches: -

http://www.maps-of-china.net/index.html

Tibet, with travel info: -

http://www.accesstibettour.com/tibet-map.html

[airlana]

Further to "Thailand 1950's Topographical Maps" thread in THE NATION Forum here is the same map series for China.

Map title index here (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/china/#a) and the map segments here (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/ams/china/)

airlana
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