TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tuan,Yi-fu
TI  - A historical geography of China
SN  - 9780202362007
AV  - DS706.5 .T83 2008
PY  - 2008///]
CY  - Piscataway, N.J.
PB  - AldineTransaction
KW  - China
KW  - Historical geography
N1  - 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 --; part 1. The; role of nature and of man --; chapter1; Nature : landforms, climate, vegetation --; The; chequerboard pattern : tectonics and landforms --; The; 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 --; chapter 2; Man's role in nature --; Soil processes : natural and man-induced --; Effect on vegetation cover --; Causes of deforestation --; part 2; landscape and life in Chinese antiquity --; chapter 3; Prehistoric scenes --; The; well-watered landscape of the prehistoric north --; The; appearance of agriculture --; Late Neolithic landscapes --; Yang-shao --; Lung-shan --; chapter 4; Early regional development --; The; wet environment of the North China plain --; Shang culture --; The; cities --; The; countryside --; Western Chou : landscape and life --; Eastern Chou --; Irrigation works and agricultural techniques --; Commerce and transportation --; The; development of cities --; Nomads and landscape desiccation in the North --; Cultures of Central and South China --; part 3; Landscape and life in Imperial China --; chapter 5; From the Ch'in to the T'ang dynasty --; The; Ch'in empire and landscape --; The; former Han empire : population and land use --; Agricultural techniques and landscapes --; Territorial expansion : new products and scenes --; The; later Han empire : population changes and migrations --; Land use on the great estates --; The; period of disunion --; Buddhist contributions to the landscape --; Sui dynasty : population change and engineered landscapes --; T'ang dynasty : changing frontier scenes --; The; economy and landscape of prosperity --; Sensitivity to nature and conservation --; Forested landscapes of T'ang China --; The; development of cities --; chapter 6; Architecture and landscape --; The; 'ahistorical' landscape --; The; bridge --; The; house --; The; courtyard --; Nature preserves, parks and gardens --; chapter 7; From the Sung to the Ch'ing dynasty --; The; Sung period : agricultural economy and landscape --; Effect of the Northern Sung industrial revolution --; Commerce and the shaping of the Sung cities --; The; 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 --; part 4; Tradition and change in modern China --; chapter 8; 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 --; chapter 9; Communist ideology and landscape --; Stages in agrarian reform --; Two villages in transition --; Afforestation, erosion control, and water conservancy --; The; development and relocation of industries --; The; growth of cities --; References --; Index
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