Irrawaddy River
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Oct 16, 2026
CodyHOST
Perhaps hoping to heal wounds, Crowley decided on an overland journey across China as a family adventure.
CodyHOST
In late 1905, Aleister, Rose, their little girl, and a small retinue traveled by steamboat up the Irrawaddy River in Burma, and then made a grueling trek on foot and by mule through the highlands into Western China.
CodyHOST
For four months, they slogged across difficult terrain.
CodyHOST
Rose and the toddler were carried in chairs by porters while Crowley marched ahead.
Steve CollinsGUEST
It's just amazing.
Steve CollinsGUEST
It's right on the shores of the Irrawaddy River, which is one of the great rivers, uh, of Asia.
Steve CollinsGUEST
Uh, and so, uh, Myanmar itself is, is a really good destination.
Steve CollinsGUEST
Uh, they've got some wonderful temples because it is basically a, a, a, a Buddhist country.
Patrick JoryHOST
I teach Southeast Asian history at the University of Queensland, Australia, and I'm co-host of this channel.
Patrick JoryHOST
Six great rivers in Asia flow out of the Tibetan glacial region: the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Mekong, the Red, and the Yangtze, and together they comprise the largest concentration of fresh water on the planet outside of the polar regions, and they support one-third of humanity.
Patrick JoryHOST
In the age of imperialism, Western colonial powers dreamed of harnessing the economic potential of these rivers as if an empire of men challenged a much older empire of rivers.
Patrick JoryHOST
This is the theme of Iftikhar Iqbal's conceptually ambitious new book, The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire across China, India, and Southeast Asia, published by Stanford University Press this year.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
So I had the realization that the Brahmaputra could not be understood only as a river of Bangladesh or Assam or, or even China.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
James Rennell, you know, the famous British cartographer, could describe it from the delta as an arm of the sea, while from the eastern Himalayas it appeared as, as a child of the mountain.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
So its tributaries reach towards Tibet, Burma, uh, Yunnan and Salween and the Irrawaddy Rivers, and the same pattern recurred across the Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red and Yangtze.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
Together, they suggested not just six isolated rivers, but a vast connected water world.
Patrick JoryHOST
I teach Southeast Asian history at the University of Queensland, Australia, and I'm co-host of this channel.
Patrick JoryHOST
Six great rivers in Asia flow out of the Tibetan glacial region, the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Mekong, the Red, and the Yangtze.
Patrick JoryHOST
And together they comprise the largest concentration of freshwater on the planet outside of the polar regions, and they support one third of humanity.
Patrick JoryHOST
In the age of imperialism, Western colonial powers dreamed of harnessing the economic potential of these rivers, as if an empire of men challenged a much older empire of rivers.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
James Rennell, you know, the famous British cartographer, could describe it from the delta as an arm of the sea.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
While from the Eastern Himalayas, it appeared as, as a child of the mountain.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
So its tributaries reach towards Tibet, Burma, uh, Yunnan and Salween, and the Irrawaddy Rivers, and the same pattern recurred across the Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red and Yangtze.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
Together, they suggested not just six isolated rivers, but a vast connected water world, and they saw it as forming figuratively a necklace of fluid pearls flowing around Yunnan and connecting so widely disparate places between Indian Ocean, the Pacific, and the Tibetan Himalayan uplands.
Patrick JoryHOST
I teach Southeast Asian history at the University of Queensland, Australia, and I'm co-host of this channel.
Patrick JoryHOST
Six great rivers in Asia flow out of the Tibetan glacial region, the Brahmaputra, the Irrawaddy, the Salween, the Mekong, the Red, and the Yangtze, and together they comprise the largest concentration of fresh water on the planet outside of the polar regions, and they support one third of humanity.
Patrick JoryHOST
In the age of imperialism, Western colonial powers dreamed of harnessing the economic potential of these rivers, as if an empire of men challenged a much older empire of rivers.
Patrick JoryHOST
This is the theme of Iftikhar Iqbal's conceptually ambitious new book, The Range of the River: A Riverine History of Empire Across China, India, and Southeast Asia, published by Stanford University Press this year.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
So I had the realization that the Brahmaputra could not be understood only as a river of Bangladesh or Assam or, or even China.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
James Rennell, you know, the famous British cartographer, could describe it from the delta as an arm of the sea, while from the eastern Himalayas it appeared as, as a child of the mountain.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
So its tributaries reach towards Tibet, Burma, uh, Yunnan and Salween, and the Irrawaddy Rivers, and the same pattern recurred across the Irrawaddy, Salween, Mekong, Red and Yangtze.
Iftekhar IqbalGUEST
Together, they suggested not just six isolated rivers, but a vast connected water world.