Geographical education in universities of China since 1949
China ; Research ; Teaching of geography ; University
This article gives a concise review of the three development stages of geographical education in universities of China and the future development tendency.
Prospect of economic geography and human geography in China in the 1990s : a report of a symposium
The participants of the congress (held at Shanghai in 1990 by Geography Committees and the Geographical Society of China) recognized that human geography has developed rapidly in China during the 1980s and that it has changed from a position
Late Pleistocene chronology of loess deposition near Luochuan, China in XIII INQUA Congress issue.
Loess near Luochan was sampled for thermoluminescence (TL) dating simultaneously with magnetic susceptibility measurements to provide the first independent age estimates on a susceptibility record from the Loess Plateau of China.
A preliminary study of food problem in China and its countermeasures
China is and also will be confronted with serious difficulties in feeding its population because of scarce agricultural land resources and the rapidly growing food consumption needs. To cope with this situation, it is necessary to increase food
The demographic responses to famine : the case of China 1958-61
Over the four years 1958-61, China suffered some 25-30 million more deaths and experienced some 30-35 million fewer births than might have been expected under normal conditions.
The topographic characteristics of the Shirasu ignimbrite in Japan and their similarity to those of the loess landforms in China are summarized and the geotechnical properties of the Shirasu and the loess, that are responsible for this similarity
The sources of loess material and the formation of the loess plateau in China
China ; Eolian features ; Loess ; Microstructure ; Palaeogeography ; Palaeosol ; Plateau ; Quaternary ; Tibet
Based on field investigations over a number of years, and on analyses of particles in recent duststorms, this paper provides some initial information about the cause for the large quantity of Quaternary silt deposits in China, which where the parent
in different regions of China, it is found that forming factors, process and types of China's mires have their own features. Researches on models, databases, information systems, mire mapping and some experimental researches on integrated exploitation
China ; Research ; Teaching of geography ; University
This review focuses on the thirty years geographical education in ten universities then available in China in terms of staffing, teaching and research in two separate periods : 1919 to 1937, and from then on to 1949.