WCMN The Bandit Chief, 1938

Title: WCMN The Bandit Chief, 1938
Identifier: WCMN_0002
Creator: Edward Beatty
Date Created: November 1938
Description: Travel narrative of Edward Beatty's and Gilbert Vinden's trek from Dujiangyan to just beyond Wolongguan, during which they encountered the baby panda, Pandora, for sale in a small mountain village.
Commentary: The locations mentioned in Beatty's narrative align almost perfectly with place names on a map created by YMCA missionary George G. Helde in 1922. This makes it possible to recreate the exact location where Pandora was captured.
Relation: 1938 Trip to Wolong and Pandora the Panda
Publisher: SIUE
Contributor: Cory Willmott
Record Date: 2025-12-30
Access Rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Bibliographic Citation: Edward E. Beatty. “The Bandit Chief.” West China Missionary News 40, no. 11 (Nov. 1938): 389-391.

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