China Seminar | 25 June 1981

A Journey to the Land of Twelve Thousand Rice Fields

Nancy Barrett Dowdle

“A Journey to the Land of Twelve Thousand Rice Fields” is the topic of a talk by Nancy Barrett Dowdle. During April this year, Nancy took on an assignment with the National Geographic Magazine and visited Xixuangbanna in Yunnan Province. There, only a short distance from the Burmese and Laos border, she observed the Water Festival along with other ways and customs of the Dai people, one of China’s many national minorities. Nancy Dowdle did an M.A. thesis in History on the Dai people, and will pursue a Ph.D. in Geography at the University of Hawaii.