Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xviii, 436 pages : illustrations, maps (1 folded), tables (1 folded), diagrams; 24 cm

Subject

1. 1912-1949
2. Physical geography > China
3. Géographie physique > Chine
4. Economic history
5. Physical geography
6. Travel
7. Landeskunde
8. Physical geography > China
9. China > Economic conditions > 1912-1949
10. China > Description and travel
11. China > Condiciones económicas > 1918 ****
12. Chine > Géographie
13. Chine > Conditions économiques > 1912-1949
14. Chine > Descriptions et voyages
15. China
16. China > Economic conditions > 1912-1949
17. China > Description and travel

Contents

1. The geographical landscape -- Topography sets the stage -- Climate, the key to human activities -- Farmers of forty centuries -- Nature's gifts to China -- China's world contacts -- The North China Plain -- The Loess Highlands -- The mountains of Shantung, Liaotung and Jehol -- The Manchurian Plain -- The mountains of Eastern Manchuria -- The Khingan Mountains -- The Central Asiatic steppes and deserts -- The Central Mountain belt -- The Yangtze Plain -- The Red Basis of Szechwan -- The South Yangtze Hills -- The southeastern coast -- The hills of Liangkwang -- The southwestern tableland -- The Tibetan Borderland.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Illustrated lining-papers.

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 395-423.