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A Historical Geography of China
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Pages: 247
Authors: Yi-Fu Tuan
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The Chinese earth is pervasively humanized through long occupation. Signs of man's presence vary from the obvious to the extremely subtle. The building of roads
China: A Historical Geography of the Urban
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Pages: 257
Authors: Yannan Ding
Categories: Social Science
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This book offers a unique contribution to the burgeoning field of Chinese historical geography. Urban transformation in China constitutes both a domestic revolu
Borders of Chinese Civilization
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Douglas Howland
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996-04-25 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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D. R. Howland explores China’s representations of Japan in the changing world of the late nineteenth century and, in so doing, examines the cultural and socia
China's Island Frontier
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Pages: 327
Authors: Ronald G. Knapp
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-03-31 - Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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Until the seventeenth century, Professor Knapp reminds us, Taiwan lay obscure off the southeast coast of China-an island cloaked in anonymity and inhabited prin
The Geography of China
Language: en
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Authors: Jia Luo
Categories: Juvenile Nonfiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-09-02 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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An immense land, China is approximately the same size as the United States. Yet it is home to more than four times as many people as live within U.S. borders--a