• Revisiting Shangri-La (English Edition): A Century of Change in China‘s Southwest, Then and Now
  • Revisiting Shangri-La (English Edition): A Century of Change in China‘s Southwest, Then and Now
  • Revisiting Shangri-La (English Edition): A Century of Change in China‘s Southwest, Then and Now
  • Revisiting Shangri-La (English Edition): A Century of Change in China‘s Southwest, Then and Now
  • Revisiting Shangri-La (English Edition): A Century of Change in China‘s Southwest, Then and Now
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Revisiting Shangri-La (English Edition): A Century of Change in China‘s Southwest, Then and Now

Revisiting Shangri-La (English Edition): A Century of Change in China‘s Southwest, Then and Now

Joseph Rock’s 1920s National Geographic Photographs, Re-Shot from the Same Spots a Century Later — Mountains, Villages and People, Compared Side by Side
This is not a travel guide, and it is not a history book. It is a photographic record built on a simple but powerful idea: take the pictures a famous explorer shot in the 1920s, go back to the exact same places, and shoot them again. Robert K. Moseley, a scientist with The Nature Conservancy, spent years tracking down Joseph Rock‘s original vantage points in the mountains of southwest China, and the result is a book where every spread puts a century-old photograph next to its present-day counterpart. You see glaciers that have shrunk, roads that have appeared, villages that have grown or emptied, and faces that carry the same expressions across a hundred years. If you want to see environmental and cultural change with your own eyes, without reading an academic study or a policy report—this is it.
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Before and After in the Mountains of Southwest China.

What happens to a place over one hundred years? Shangri-La: A Century of Looking Back answers this question through the lens of a camera. This striking visual volume brings together historical photographs of China’s southwestern mountains—the legendary landscapes associated with Shangri-La—and sets them beside contemporary images taken from the same vantage points-19.

The result is a powerful visual dialogue between past and present. Glaciers retreat. Villages grow and change. Roads carve through valleys that once took days to traverse. Yet the enduring spirit of the land and its people remains, captured in Moseley‘s patient, documentary-style photography.

What you’ll find inside:

  • A century in photographs — Historical images from early explorers and missionaries paired with modern re-photography from the same locations

  • Environmental change made visible — Witness the retreat of glaciers, the shifting of treelines, and the impact of development on sacred landscapes

  • Cultural continuity and transformation — Tibetan, Naxi, and other ethnic communities documented across generations

  • A photographer‘s pilgrimage — Robert K. Moseley’s decades-long engagement with the region, culminating in this comprehensive visual record

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