page_title: Tengchong
section_title: The British
hierarchical_section_title: Tengchong / History / The British
caption_attribution_description: English: Late nineteenth century view of en:Tengyue, Yunnan Province, China
context_page_description: Tengchong is a county-level city of Baoshan City, western Yunnan province, People's Republic of China. It is well known for its volcanic activity. The city is named after the town of Tengchong which serves as its political center, previously known as Tengyue in Chinese. English language sources of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries use names such as Tingyueh, Teng Yueh, Momein, and Momien, these last two from the name for the place, one of the former Chinese Shan States, in the Shan language.
  It borders with Myanmar in the northwest for 151 km. By road, it is 650 km west of the provincial capital, Kunming, and 170 km westward from Baoshan's urban area.
  Tengchong marks the southwestern terminus of the Heihe–Tengchong Line, an imaginary line significant in geography that imaginary line that divides the area of China into two roughly equal parts.
context_section_description: In 1868, during a visit to Tengyue, British Army Major Sladen procured a woodblock printed edition of the Chinese history of the town, which was to be brought back to England and deposited at the British Museum. In the West the town is best known as the site of the murder of British diplomat Augustus Margary on February 21, 1875, an event which led to the Chefoo Convention. It was also the base of the China Inland Mission missionary James Fraser during the majority of his time working with the Lisu people. At one point British forces in British-occupied Burma established a trading post in the town with hopes of generating wealth through trade with China. In the early 20th century, a thriving cross-border trade between British-controlled Burma and China was centered around Tengchong. In 1921, construction work began on the British consulate in Tengchong, with completion 10 years later.
caption: Late nineteenth century view of Tengyue (Tengchong)
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