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Tuan, Yi-fu, 1930-

A historical geography of China / Yi-Fu Tuan - xi, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Originally published under title: China. Chicago : Aldine Pub. Company, 1969, in series: The world's landscapes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-220) and index

Editor's preface -- List of illustrations -- Introduction -- role of nature and of man -- Nature : landforms, climate, vegetation -- chequerboard pattern : tectonics and landforms -- unstable earth -- Tectonic and hydrologic changes in western China -- Loess in the middle Huang Ho basin -- Deposition and subsidence in eastern China -- Changes in the course of the Huang Ho -- Climate of western and northwestern China -- Climate of humid and subhumid China -- Natural vegetation -- Man's role in nature -- Soil processes : natural and man-induced -- Effect on vegetation cover -- Causes of deforestation -- landscape and life in Chinese antiquity -- Prehistoric scenes -- well-watered landscape of the prehistoric north -- appearance of agriculture -- Late Neolithic landscapes -- Yang-shao -- Lung-shan -- Early regional development -- wet environment of the North China plain -- Shang culture -- cities -- countryside -- Western Chou : landscape and life -- Eastern Chou -- Irrigation works and agricultural techniques -- Commerce and transportation -- development of cities -- Nomads and landscape desiccation in the North -- Cultures of Central and South China -- Landscape and life in Imperial China -- From the Ch'in to the T'ang dynasty -- Ch'in empire and landscape -- former Han empire : population and land use -- Agricultural techniques and landscapes -- Territorial expansion : new products and scenes -- later Han empire : population changes and migrations -- Land use on the great estates -- period of disunion -- Buddhist contributions to the landscape -- Sui dynasty : population change and engineered landscapes -- T'ang dynasty : changing frontier scenes -- economy and landscape of prosperity -- Sensitivity to nature and conservation -- Forested landscapes of T'ang China -- development of cities -- Architecture and landscape -- 'ahistorical' landscape -- bridge -- house -- courtyard -- Nature preserves, parks and gardens -- From the Sung to the Ch'ing dynasty -- Sung period : agricultural economy and landscape -- Effect of the Northern Sung industrial revolution -- Commerce and the shaping of the Sung cities -- northern antithesis : Cambaluc or Ta-tu -- Ming and Ch'ing urbanization -- Changes in rate of population growth -- North China under the Mongols -- Population growth and agricultural expansion : Ming Ch'ing dynasties -- Landscape changes in three areas -- North China -- Ssu-ch'uan basin -- Southern (Yangtze) highlands -- Tradition and change in modern China -- Stability and innovation : 1850-1950 -- Types of landscape : c.1930 -- Loessic uplands -- North China plain -- Ssu-ch'uan basin -- Yangtze plains-- Southwest China : Yun-nan -- South China -- Types of population and landscape change -- Natural population increase and landscape change -- natural and manmade disasters -- Expansion and adaptation at the frontiers : Tibet, Mongolia, Manchuria -- Impact of the West -- Early industrialization -- South Manchuria's 'industrial landscape' -- Urban manufacturing -- Treaty ports -- Impact of modernized cities on countryside -- Communist ideology and landscape -- Stages in agrarian reform -- Two villages in transition -- Afforestation, erosion control, and water conservancy -- development and relocation of industries -- growth of cities -- References -- Index part 1. The chapter1. The The chapter 2. part 2. chapter 3. The The chapter 4. The The The The part 3. chapter 5. The The The The The The chapter 6. The The The The chapter 7. The The part 4. chapter 8. chapter 9. The The

ISBN: 9780202362007 0202362000

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
China--Historical geography

LC Class. No.: DS706.5 / .T83 2008

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