Annotated Segment of Helde's "Part of Western Szechwan"

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Title: Annotated Segment of Helde's "Part of Western Szechwan"
Identifier: MAP_008
Description: This is a small segment of a much larger map produced by George Helde, a YMCA missionary, on trips he took to the western hill country in 1921 and 1922. Helde had just lost his wife in childbirth at Mt. Emei when he set out in 1922. The annotations show locations on the route that Edward Beatty and Gilbert Vinden took on their journey to Mowkung in 1938 when they encountered Pandora the baby panda in Maoshuizi village on their return trip. Beatty and Vinden took the same route that Helde documented in 1920.
Commentary: Locations mentioned by Beatty are indicated by a red dot.
Creator: George G. Helde; Annotations by Cory Willmott
Date Created: 1922
Location: Dujiangyan (Kwanhsien); Wolongguan (Wo Long Kuan); Wolong National Nature Reserve; Xuankoucun (Shen K’eo); Shouxi River (Shou-hsi Ho River); Shuimozhen (Shui Mo Ko); Sanjiangxiang (San Chiang Ko); Caoping (T’sao P’in Pa); Niutoushangou (Niu T’eo or Shan Cow’s Head Pass); Shaotang River (P’i T’iao River)
Event: 1938 Trip to Wolong and Pandora the Panda
Original Format: Oversized insert in journal
Relation: WCMN The Bandit Chief, 1938
Provenance: University of Michigan, Hathi Trust:; https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015011341925&seq=11
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Publisher: SIUE
Record Date: 2025-12-30
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Type: Map
References: Edward E. Beatty. “The Bandit Chief.” West China Missionary News 40, no. 11 (Nov. 1938): 389-391.
Published In: George G. Helde. “Map of Part of Tribes Country.” The Journal of the West China Border Research Society 1 (1922-1923): oversize insert.

Item sets: Maps

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