tribes and travellers
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HISTORICAL PHOTO OF SLAVES AND INDENTURED WORKERS, ‘CHINESE AND NEGROES’ OF BRITISH GUIANA (1870–1931)
FEATURE
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HERITAGE
Pangaea, Dance of the
Moving Continents
The Tale of A Shifting Earth
The lands of Earth are conducting a
great slow dance – they come together
and rift apart with titanic grace.
Since the light rocks of the Pangaea
continent separated from the heavier
rocks of the oceanic crust, they have
migrated around Earth in slowly
shifting configurations. Today, we
look at the familiar map and see the
seemingly stable shapes of the land,
but we are just catching a moment in a
much more complex dance.
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CULTURE
In Search of Sweet Success
The story of Fung A Pan and
the Chinese cane reapers of
British Guiana
The sugarcane reapers of the early
19th century contributed in no small
measure to the community of British
Guiana, just as Fung A Pan and other
Chinese coolies did. This is the story
of one man from Poon Ye in Canton
who travelled to an unknown territory
in South America, and the story of
his descendants today spread far and
wide across the globe.
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Reviving the Ancient
Silk Road
Kashgar as a key point in
China’s ambitious plan
Once a cultural pillar of Central
Asia and a key point in the legendary
Silk Road, Kashgar is today
undergoing a socio-political and
economical facelift, even as the
Chinese government is looking to
revive the ancient commercial artery
as a way of expanding its influence
across the region.
BY ZIGOR ALDAMA
BY KHONG SWEE LIN
BY YD BAR-NESS
AsianGeo
@asiangeographic
asiangeo.com
On the cover
“The Huli wig men of Ambua Falls, in the
Tari Valley of Papua New Guinea (2010)”
by Jimmy Nelson