Nearly 200 historical images taken by photographer Sun Mingjing during two scientific expeditions to the Tibetan Kham area. As a systematic visual record of this vanished administrative area, the book documents its landscapes, wartime infrastructure, multi-ethnic communities, and daily life, offering a unique primary source for historians and general readers interested in modern Chinese history, frontier studies, and documentary photography. Fully illustrated with black & white photos, text in Chinese.

2010, Guangxi Normal University Press, softcover, 252 pp.. Some yellowing on the edges, overall in good condition.