‘A piece of China mislaid’: in Mengzi, Yunnan, charming traces of its time as treaty port
The lone foreigner stands out. The English writer Stella Benson, acquaintance of Virginia Woolf, sometime resident of Mengzi and South China Morning Post correspondent. Photo: Getty Images But in Benson’s time Mengzi was better known than it is today. Sited in the middle of an agricultural plain rimmed with mountains, 1,400 metres (4,500 feet) above … Read more
