For those New Mandala readers who have expressed an interest in the murals at the Dai-Jingpo cultural park in Jie Gao, just outside Ruili, Yunnan, I have now posted more examples of the artwork. Viewed in the context of the previous post, these examples may give readers a fuller basis for commenting on these interesting murals. Unfortunately, none of these new pictures were accompanied by any explanatory Dai or Chinese text.
In this post I also include a close-up of the meeting between Mao and the Chairman of the Dehong Autonomous Prefecture (Image 3) and a photograph (Image 4) supplied by New Mandala reader, Roger P. It shows Zhou Enlai in Sipsongpanna, another Dai Autonomous Prefecture in western Yunnan.
Image 1
Image 2
Image 3
The full mural is available here.
Image 4
Thanks to New Mandala reader Roger P. for providing this final image of Zhou Enlai during a visit to Sipsongpanna in the 1950s.
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1 Hla Oo // Jan 14, 2009 at 4:40 pm
Who are these Dai people? They look exactly like the Burmese in the old photos from the old days. The way they dressed and their faces! Amazingly Burmese?
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