This web site had its original ongoing regular
development with updates and additions occuring over the period of the Australia-China cooperative Shu Roads Project
after 2006. The front page provided ready access to the activities
and products from the Project and evolved until about September 2008. Since then a number
of things have happened. One was that the Project completed! This happened in mid-2009. There is
an ongoing continuation in China with the Hanzhong Museum as lead and with support from the Hanzhong and Shaanxi governments.
However, the original Australia-China Project has completed its two Phases,
has been reported and has been acquitted. Following this, in September 2009, the site developer retired.
This led to a new activity: the development of a new front page and site. This is under way but
is not complete.
The progress of the new web site and other activities was
delayed due to the site developer undergoing surgery and the
recovery being longer than expected (ie hoped). But it has happened. The
planned time for launch of the new site is planned to be in
late-2012. The present site and the new site will co-exist for a while and
re-directions made for a time until to new site is fully operational.
Until that occurs, this page provides direct links to areas of the site where
things have been added or updated and provides some background to the additions. It will
be updated regularly as changes occur and until the new site is operational.
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Direct Link
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Introduction
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Materials for Planned Field Work (June 2012)
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Field work is planned in June 2021 to check places and routes described for the Jinjiu Road by Alexander Wylie in 1868 and to Check barrier posts and places in Shaanxi
using a Qing Period Scroll Map held by The Library of Congress (see map details HERE). Materials, including a Table of places names and three Topo Map Mosaics
based on the Russian Military 1:200k maps of the 1960's are to be used to check routes and places. GPS tracks and waypoints are to
be used in the next update of the GE KMZ presentation that can be found HERE.
A Table of items making up the base of information for the work, including the GE presentations, documents, papers and other references has been set up as a web link
HERE.
A brief outline of the planned field work can be accessed as a PDF file HERE. The Russian Topo Maps
enable the pre-1960 road routes to be used as surrogates for older Shu Roads and linking routes. They also show us how many changes have occurred since
the main motor road from Chengdu to Baoji was completed in 1941.
[中文]
现场工作计划于2012年六月开始实施，用来研究Alexander Wylie在1868年曾提到的金牛道上的地点和线路和陕西境内的驿站 。
这些驿站在国会图书馆收藏的清代地图卷中曾多次提到（关于地图详情请看
这里
）。
我们将会采用地名表和60年代的俄罗斯军事地图（1：1200k）的三个地图拼接来研究这些线路和地点。
我们将运用GPS追踪轨迹和航点来完成下一次GE KMZ 演示的更新（点击
这里
）。
我们已经建立了网站链接来说明组成该项目的信息，这包括GE 演示，文献，论文，以及参考文献 （点击
这里
查看详情）。
关于该项目的计划大纲请参看PDF文件 （点击
这里
）。
俄罗斯的地图拼接可以使人们用20世纪60年代之前的路线来替代旧蜀道和其连接线路。
他也可以让我们知道自成都到宝鸡的机动车在1941年建成以来所发生的变迁。
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Updated Shu Roads KMZ File (April 2012)
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The main network link file for the Shu Roads presentation has been updated. The previous version led to some crashes of GE in some
circumstances. Many apologies if this happened to you! A revised presentation is now available. The new system is designed so
that updates will occur without your needing to download new files. But the problem fixed here was in the top level link.
If you have the file "Shu_Roads_Web_Link.kmz" or have downloaded the composite file "Three_Shu_Road_GE_KMZ_Files.zip"
it is wise remove them from your computer and if saved in GE from "My Places" and finally
go to the Shu Roads Google Web area HERE and download the file called "Three_Shu_Road_GE_KMZ.zip"!
NOTE: If the file you have on the system is called "Three_Shu_Road_GE_KMZ_Files.zip" it is the WRONG file. The correct file (now) is
"Three_Shu_Road_GE_KMZ.zip" and can be downloaded from the web site.
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Updated Google Earth KMZ Files (Feb 2012)
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Since the start of the Shu Roads project, a number of
Google Earth KMZ presentation files illustrating different technologies have been available on the site. Recently the original ones have been
updated and some new ones have been added.
The set of files now (February 2012) available has been expanded and the technology used in all examples has been significantly improved.
For example, the main Shu Roads Google Earth KMZ presentation file has been updated based on visits to China and new material obtained
since it was originally put together. The code has also been re-developed as a region based network linked system.
The new system can be updated so that anyone using it will have immediate access to updates without downloading any new files.
All of the KMZ files on the site
have had improvments. If you are using these files, please download the new ones by visiting the updated site
HERE and find out for yourselves!
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Translation of a paper by Feng Suiping.
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As part of the ongoing research into Plank Roads, the scanned scroll map from the US Library of Congress
continues to be researched. The results so far are described in detail at the page on the Library of
Congress Qing Period scroll map.
A Chinese paper by Hanzhong Museum Director Feng Suiping (2010) taking the Bi and Li (2004) paper as base and adding extensive new material
has now been translated. As well as a translation of Bi and Li (2004) it can be obtained from the main page describing the
Scroll Map.
The translation is the second of two promised earlier. While it is best to access the translation through the page describing the scroll map,
you can also directly access the English translation as a PDF file HERE.
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A PDF File
of The Chinese Name for Australia.
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David Jupp has written a document that
explores the origin of the present Chinese name for Australia (澳大利亚) and how it became
accepted as such by Chinese. It took him to lots of interesting places. The
document as of April 2011 is available here. It is now a final draft. However, Figures are sometimes still only
used as place holders. Not all of them yet have permissions so please
respect that possibility. You are welcome J
to provide feedback. The document is called "The Chinese name for
Australia".
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Translation of a paper by Bi and Li.
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As part of ongoing research into Plank Roads, a scroll map at the US Library of Congress
has been scanned. This is described in detail on the Library of
Congress Qing Period scroll map below.
A Chinese paper by Bi and Li (2004) describing the map has now been translated. It can be obtained
from the main page describing the
Scroll Map.
The translation is planned as the first of two. The second will be a more recent addition to the discussion by Feng Suiping,
Director of the Hanzhong Museum. While it is best to access the translation through the page describing the scroll map,
you can also directly access the PDF file HERE.
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Herold J
Wiens and his publications
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Herold J Wiens was an American Geographer whose Thesis
in 1949 provided a comprehensive examination of the Shu Roads. Herold Wiens
grew up in China as his family founded a Mennonite mission in Fujian in a town
called Shanghang (上杭) in
a Hakka (客家) area of the
upper reaches of the Han river (韩江).
The story of his family and Herold's early years can be found in a
privately published book written by his sister, Adina Wiens Robinson,
called "China Beckoning".
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Library of
Congress Qing Period scroll map
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An ancient Qing period scroll map, discussed by Herold
Wiens, is held by the US Library of Congress. It is called 《陕境蜀道图》 or “The Shu Road from
Shaanxi to the Sichuan Border”. It has been scanned by the Library of
Congress and quicklook images and other information have been made
available at this page.
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An
Introduction to the Shu Roads
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This PDF (1.332 MB) is an introduction developed from a
number of documents and translations that arose during the ACC Project. It
uses, but does not discuss, 3S technology and primarily outlines the
history, geography, culture and environment that surrounds the Shu roads,
the Plank roads and the barrier passes that made up these trade and traffic
routes for (probably more than) 3000 years.
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2007 Symposium Presentations
and Publications
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Selected presentations for the 2007 International
Symposium on Plank Road Research and Applications of 3S Technology held in Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, China. An introductory paper and the recently published
collected papers have now been referenced as well as PDF files of some
important presentations.
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Talks to the
Australia-China Friendship Society in Canberra April 29 2009
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David Jupp gave a talk to the Canberra Branch of the
Australia-China Friendship Society (PDF of current Society
Bulletin) on Wednesday April 29. Presentation in two PDF Files can be
downloaded as the main talk HERE
(warning, PDF is 4.087 MB) and a group of scans from a magazine about the
Wenchuan Earthquake HERE (second PDF
is 1.051 MB). The second PDF can be started from within the first if you
wish provided the PDF files are in the same directory.
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Translation
of Feng Suiping’s Bendigo memories
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During the September 2008 visit to Australia, Feng Suiping was very impressed by the exhibits and enterprise on display at the Golden Dragon Museum in Bendigo, Victoria. The visitors discovered experiences of Chinese people in Australia from the Gold Rushes of the 1800’s to the present and continued in Melbourne at the Chinese Museum and at the Immigration Museum.
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Links to
related sites
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A set of Web Links to related sites and useful sites has
been added and can be explored.
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Improved functioning of albums and KMZ files
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The current site has had some updates at the end of 2009.
One was to improve the functioning of albums and the other was to update
the Google Earth KMZ files to take advantage of changes in the Slider Bar and overcome
apparent loss of Tracks this caused. In the last quarter of 2009, David Jupp and Feng
Suiping revised the Shu Road maps and the results will be added to the site
when complete. A paper on the Library of Congress Scroll Map has been
written and published by Feng Suiping and translations of this and related
material is under way to make the findings accessible to a wider audience.
There may be delays but the work goes on.
Colleagues at North West University in Xi’an are working
to develop a digital terrain surface for the Stone Gate area which is now
covered by the waters of the Stone Gate Reservoir. This will be used to
collate old photographs in pre-dam context. The new web site will have many
new things to check up on. In the meantime, good luck in all of your
interests.
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Final
Acquittal for ACC Project (2009)
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Formal acquittal and report to the Australia China
Council for Phase II of the Project (April 2009) and References to
supporting material (acquittal is Reference 24)
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