{"product_id":"artery-of-freedom-the-burma-road-to-chungking-emil-lowenstein-1941-old-map-p-8-007014","title":"Artery of Freedom—the Burma Road to Chungking—Emil Lowenstein 1941 old map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Artery of Freedom: U.S. Route No. 1 in the Far East'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEmil Lowenstein’s dramatic shaded-relief map presents the Burma Road as China’s precarious “artery of freedom” during the Second Sino-Japanese War. The route climbs from Lashio through the mountains of Burma and Yunnan to Kunming, continuing towards Chungking, while railways, rivers, proposed connections and approaches from India are set against an exceptionally forceful rendering of the terrain. Built largely by manual labour in 1937–38, the road had become China’s principal surviving overland supply line after Japanese expansion closed alternative routes. Published in September 1941, before Pearl Harbor, its perspective makes the immense logistical difficulty of sustaining inland China immediately intelligible.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723298431323,"sku":"P-8-007014","price":50.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-8-007014a.jpg?v=1785944816","url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/products\/artery-of-freedom-the-burma-road-to-chungking-emil-lowenstein-1941-old-map-p-8-007014","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}