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This book is an intellectual biography of the German geopolitical scientist Haushofer. The author Hans Weigert shows the origins of German geopolitical thought, and focuses on analyzing the ideological connection between Haushofer and Spengler, Ratzel, and Mackinder, clarifying the important value of Haushofer's thought in understanding Pacific geopolitics. Weigert criticized Haushofer for being responsible for the foreign expansion of the German nation, believing that his doctrine advocated German conquest based on natural laws and ignored human nature. However, Haushoferism is not the root cause of German geopolitics; it is just a symptom of modern Western diseases. This book was written in 1942, shortly after the outbreak of the Pacific War. Although it is eighty years ago, it still has reference value for the formation of our understanding of geopolitics.

The role of political geography, developed from the biogeography of the German geographer Ratzel, in the turbulence of the world's political landscape in the twentieth century is still debated. Starting from this "Ratzel Public Case", this book reviews the major changes in the last century of world history, combs through a huge amount of historical materials, describes Europe's political growth experience and its geographical expansion, and pays attention to the impact of Anglo-American political growth on the political growth of modern European civilization, especially on the political growth of Germany. This book attempts to lead readers through the surface of modern Western civilization and penetrate into its inner texture from the perspective of political history, in order to stimulate our reflection on geopolitical consciousness.

There were no cameras in ancient times, but fortunately, ancient painters recorded what they saw and heard in paintings... Please accept this "ticket" for the Grand Canal, enter 25 famous paintings handed down from generation to generation, and enjoy a tour of the Grand Canal. Under the delicate brushwork of the ancients, it is like watching a geographical and historical documentary on paper. Traveling between boats, along the route of the Grand Canal, passing through 9 famous historical and cultural cities: Beijing, Tianjin, Dezhou, Tai'an, Huai'an Qingkou, Yangzhou, Guazhou, Suzhou, and Hangzhou. Along the way, you can see geography, learn history, feel the customs, explore the wisdom of the ancients, and listen to the past and present of the Grand Canal, as well as the endless legends that live on the canal.

Where did China's long history begin? How did Chinese civilization take root and thrive and endure for a long time? How did the Chinese nation thrive and develop into a big family of fifty-six ethnic groups today? Professor Ge Jianxiong's dozens of new works in recent years, with his profound historical accumulation and unique practical insights, tell the origin and development of Chinese civilization from the oracle bones and bronzes that carry the dawn of civilization, to the Yellow River and Yangtze River that gave birth to countless splendid cultures, to the canals and the Silk Road that influence regional and world exchanges. This is not only a review of history, but also an in-depth discussion of cultural self-confidence, guiding us to rethink the foundation and future of Chinese culture in the complex and ever-changing present.

This book is based on Mr. Huang Wenbi's "History and Geography of the Northwest". It selects and compiles the most important expositions from topics such as Xinjiang's mountains and water systems, and the distribution and changes of the countries in the Western Regions, to reflect the author's main research characteristics of closely integrating history, geography, and archaeology. This book is of far-reaching significance for contemporary Chinese readers to have an in-depth understanding of this land in the northwest.

Ganjiang River is the mother river of Jiangxi, flowing endlessly, and the cultural creations are equally graceful and graceful. "Ganjiang River Flows North" focuses on showing readers the long history, culture and humanistic sentiments along the Ganjiang River. The author also elaborates on it from the perspective of social and economic development. Each constitutes a relatively independent system and mainly tells the impact and significance of Ganjiang culture on the development of the cultural history of the Chinese nation. The author has his own unique understanding, understanding and thinking about the history and culture of this land, and is also rich in historical imagination. The work closely combines historical inquiry with cultural search, rational thinking and literary imagination, interweaves the dual inquiry of history and reality, and is full of characteristics and enlightenment significance as historical and cultural prose.

Côte d'Ivoire is located in the west of the African continent, bordering the Atlantic Ocean port of Guinea to the south. It has the largest port in West Africa and is also an important seaport for the landlocked countries Mali and Burkina Faso. The superior geographical location, open and inclusive foreign policy and the rapid and dynamic economic development in recent years have made Côte d'Ivoire once again the hub of West Africa. The tourism industry ranks first in the region and is known as the "Little Paris of West Africa". This book provides a relatively detailed introduction to Côte d'Ivoire's land, economy, politics, history, culture, society, diplomacy, etc.

"Australian Studies" is sponsored by the China Australia Studies Association and the Australian Studies Center of Beijing Foreign Studies University. It is the first interdisciplinary academic collection of Australian country studies in China. It mainly collects academic articles in various fields such as Australian politics, economy, diplomacy, culture, history, etc. Each issue sets a different research theme, focuses on contemporary times, takes into account history, and advocates interdisciplinary research. It aims to create an authoritative platform for Chinese Australian studies and comprehensively display the new results of Australian country studies.

"History and Geography" is a collection sponsored by the School of History of Nanjing University. It inherits the context of the famous academic journal "Journal of History and Geography" of Nanjing University's predecessor, Nanjing Normal School and National Southeast University. It was first published in 2017. "History and Geography" is positioned as a comprehensive study of history and geography across disciplines, times, and regions, focusing on "big articles" that combine theoretical thinking with empirical evidence. The columns include "Historical Preface", "Theoretical Controversy", "History and Human Geography", "Cross-border Nation-State Relations", "Marine History", "Cross-Cultural Research", "Archaeology", "Teaching and Talent Training", "Reading Notes and Academic Book Reviews", etc.

For international relations research, the South Pacific region is a huge unknown world. We still know too little about it and it is worth exploring in an academic way. Regionalism is a "door" to understanding this region. Regardless of academic value or practical value, the South Pacific region and its regionalism are like treasures on the seabed, waiting for more "treasure hunters" to dig deeper. This book attempts to sort out the history and context of the development of South Pacific regionalism, explore its evolutionary dynamics and logic, and draw a "treasure map" for the exploration of latecomers.

The Czech Republic, referred to as Czech Republic, is a young country that became independent on January 1, 1993. It is located in the middle of the European continent. The Czech Republic is a member of the European Union, NATO, the OECD, the Schengen Agreement and the Visegrad Group. The Czech Republic has beautiful and charming natural scenery, profound cultural and historical heritage, colorful folk customs, and a strong industrial foundation. It is the country in Central and Eastern Europe whose people's living standards are closest to the EU average. This book introduces Czech geography, history, politics, economy, culture, education, military and diplomacy with detailed information.

Place names are the proper names that people give to natural or human geographical entities at a specific spatial location. Place names are also products of society. Their naming and evolution are always restricted by the level of social development. They have obvious regional, national and contemporary characteristics and have an indicative effect on regional geographical environment and human activities. Promoting research on regional place names can provide insight into the regional development process, human activity trajectories and changes in the geographical environment, highlight the activities and processes of regional human understanding of the region, and provide guidance for place name naming in the new era. This book is a pioneering work in the study of place names in Guangdong. Based on the understanding of Guangdong's geographical environment and the diachronic characteristics of the place names in the region, this book shows both comprehensible and visible landscape representations of the landscape of Guangdong's place names from the levels of categories and regional differentiation.

This book first clarifies the Chinese, Western, and Eastern origins of the Chinese Geological Society's doctrine and system, as well as its deformation and metamorphosis under the reflection of ancient and modern times, and understands that it has a far more complex appearance than the Eastern and Western and later specialized societies. Secondly, it reproduces the activities of the Chinese Geoscience Society in the academic and political fields in chronological order, and explores its organization, Career, personnel and influence, based on the interaction between internal self-change and external factors, reveal its connection with academia, politics and society; finally, on the basis of analyzing the articles of association, analyze the words and deeds of the leaders of the China Geological Society and the debates inside and outside the society, understand the personnel and interest disputes behind it, and explore its original intention.

"East Asian Civilization" is an academic journal sponsored by the Department of Cultural Relics and Museology, School of Social Development, Nanjing Normal University. It aims to strengthen academic exchanges between domestic scholars and colleagues in the same field around the world, and promote the continuous development of East Asian archeology and cultural museums. The research scope of "East Asian Civilizations" is centered on China and widely oriented to the East Asian world. The fields involved include research on archaeology, history, cultural relics, museology, cultural heritage, etc. This collection hopes to promote the integration and innovation of research in related fields in East Asia through composite research methods. This book is the fifth volume of the collection, including pre-Qin archeology, archaeological research on cultural relics in historical periods, regional history and culture, scientific and technological archeology, history of archaeology, field archaeological reports, etc.

East Timor is a country located at the eastern end of Timor Island in Southeast Asia. It has been colonized by Portugal for a long time in history. In 1975, the Portuguese government allowed East Timor to implement national self-determination. On May 20, 2002, the Democratic Republic of East Timor was officially established, becoming the youngest country in Asia. Timor-Leste is rich in oil and natural gas resources, and its economy relies heavily on oil and gas revenue and foreign aid. Its non-oil and gas economy is mainly based on traditional service industries and agriculture. In recent years, the Timor-Leste government has made reducing poverty and increasing employment its policy priorities, gradually increasing its fiscal budget, expanding public expenditures, and encouraging foreign investment to stimulate non-oil and gas economic growth. This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, politics, economy, military, society, culture and diplomacy of East Timor, which will be of great benefit to readers.

Denmark is a developed country in Northern Europe known for its high welfare, with a world-leading per capita living standard and a harmonious and stable society. Denmark is Andersen's hometown and is world-famous for literature, art, and architectural design. Denmark has many magnificent royal palaces, marvelous and magnificent natural landscapes, and legendary fairy tale parks, making it a world-famous tourist destination. This book will give you a comprehensive understanding of this beautiful fairy tale kingdom from the aspects of history, politics, economy, military, society, culture and diplomacy.

Yemen is located at the southwest end of the Arabian Peninsula, bordering Oman to the east, Saudi Arabia to the north, the Red Sea to the west, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea to the south, facing Eritrea and Djibouti across the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and blocking the exit from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean. Its strategic location is very important. Yemen has been an important transportation route between the East and the West since ancient times. It was once a transit station on the famous ancient Maritime Silk Road and the starting point of the Spice Road. Yemen is one of the countries co-building the "Belt and Road" and an important economic partner of China. China-Yemen cooperation has broad development prospects. This book comprehensively and systematically introduces the history, politics, economy, culture, society and diplomacy of Yemen.

Afghanistan is a landlocked country located in central and western Asia. It borders Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, and Tajikistan to the north, Iran to the west, Pakistan to the south and east, and a narrow strip of land protruding from the northeast that borders China. It has a prominent geopolitical status. Afghanistan is rich in mineral resources, and its industry is dominated by light industry and handicrafts. Agriculture and animal husbandry are the main pillars of Afghanistan's national economy. China and Afghanistan have had close economic and cultural exchanges in history, and the relations between the two countries have broad prospects for development.

This book is a collection of the results of a large-scale all-media series of reports by "Chongqing Daily" "Where Did You Come From - Retracing the Road of Huguang and Sichuan Immigration". It tells the historical event of Huguang and Sichuan. With precious historical materials, legendary stories, and rich nostalgia, it touched the heartstrings of many audiences and aroused strong resonance.

This book is one of the "The Power of Walking - Chongqing Daily's "Re-Walking" Series" and is a collection of the results of Chongqing Daily's 2016 large-scale field interview series "Re-Walking the Ancient Salt Road to Experience New Changes". The interview team was divided into four groups and spent more than a month revisiting the four ancient salt roads of Qi'an Salt Road, Bayan Ancient Salt Road, Fu'an Salt Road and Qinba Ancient Salt Road. The journey covered thousands of kilometers. The reporters climbed trails and waded through dangerous shoals, traveling through Chongqing, Hunan, Hubei and Guizhou. Between China and Shaanxi, we searched the streets and alleys and fields, excavated precious historical materials of the ancient salt road, explored the codes of Bayu culture, told the story of the rise and fall of the salt road, and reflected the great changes that have taken place in the districts and counties along the ancient salt road in the fight against poverty in recent years. Subsequently, "Chongqing Daily" published this series of reports in 20 pages, and simultaneously launched them on online media in the form of full-media reporting, which attracted widespread social attention.

The author of this book has spent many years following the footsteps of the ancient scholar Li Daoyuan, and through on-site visits, he has verified the records in ancient classics such as "Shui Jing Zhu". In a way that compares history and reality, he gives a literary explanation of the social development of the Jialing River Basin from ancient times to modern times and the process of modernization, thereby helping readers understand this unique river of Jialing River.

This book is a picture-text reading that provides a panoramic interpretation of the "Kunlun Myth". It uses the "Kunlun Myth" to reunite the essence, spirit, and spirit of Chinese mythology. The content of the book is drawn from ancient books of the past dynasties, such as "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Huainanzi", "Shenyi Jing" and "Taiping Yulan", combined with the research results of mythology in modern times, refined and processed into stories. Through eight chapters, it explains the original state, mythical state, image evolution of Kunlun Mountain and the source of its status as a cultural consensus. In addition to the text interpretation, it is supplemented by more than 150 purely hand-drawn illustrations, drawing inspiration from ancient Chinese paintings and traditional patterns, combined with modern aesthetic trends, giving the landscape, flowers and birds, gods and humans, and exotic animals an agile style, visually presenting the mysterious atmosphere of Kunlun.

The spread of Western learning to the east from the 16th to the 19th centuries brought Chinese society into a unique period of cultural transformation. The Chinese and Western geographical documents formed during this period stirred up rich humanistic imagination about the world in Chinese society and intellectual circles. Through detailed research on Matteo Ricci's world map, Ai Julius's "Zi Fang Wai Ji" and other Ming and Qing Chinese Western geographical documents, this book shows the spread of Western geography and animal and plant knowledge in China since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, as well as the efforts made by Chinese intellectuals to bridge the gap between China and the West. This book pays special attention to putting these issues into the coordinates of China and the world in the context of global history, and attempts to sort out the complex aspects of the fierce collision and integration of Chinese and Western cultures around the geographical documents of the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the grand and magnificent historical picture of the spread of Western learning to the east.

This book is an academic work on the agriculture and geography of the Liao and Jin dynasties. It explores the relationship between man and land during the Liao and Jin dynasties from the perspective of broad agriculture. The Liao and Jin dynasties covered most of northern China, with unique natural geographical units and several important agricultural boundaries that traversed the entire region. Compared with the two Song dynasties, it experienced more drastic changes in politics, economy and even military affairs. The resulting social factors such as population migration continued to promote changes in the regional structure of agricultural production. When comprehensively restoring the agricultural geography of the Liao and Jin dynasties, the author focused on analyzing the environmental characteristics before the formation of grassland farming areas, the characteristics of population mobility after the establishment of the Liao and Jin dynasties, the regional characteristics of agricultural production activities, and the geographical pattern of crop types and planting systems. Based on traditional documents, combined with archaeological excavations and field investigations, the book provides an overall discussion of the regional characteristics and historical processes of agricultural activities in the Liao and Jin dynasties.

This book is an overall discussion of agricultural development and its geographical distribution in the two Song Dynasties for more than 300 years. The book not only macroscopically points out the importance of agricultural production to the national destiny and people's livelihood in the Song Dynasty, but also based on the regional differences caused by the natural environment and social factors in the Song Dynasty, from the aspects of population, land, crops, water conservancy, agricultural technology, etc., Discusses the agricultural production characteristics of five regions in the Song Dynasty: the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River, the southeast region, the Jinghu region, the Chuanxia region, and the Lingnan region. It focuses on the relationship between the southward shift of ancient China's economic center of gravity and the two-crop annual rice-wheat rotation system. This book constructs a research paradigm of "agricultural geography", with solid data and rigorous argumentation. It shows the complexity and differences of agricultural complexes in various places in the Song Dynasty, and accurately summarizes the characteristics of Song Dynasty agriculture in the history of Chinese agricultural development as a "connection between past and future". This book helps readers observe the political changes and economic development in the Song Dynasty through the "agricultural perspective", and has high academic reference value.

This book talks about disputes, migration, and separation to trade, culture, and reunification. It reproduces the historical stages of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties in which turbulence and integration in the Western Regions coexisted, diversity and change were entangled, and literature and art shined. It writes the story of the annual rings of China. We will start from the chaos in the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the unification of China by Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, and continue to tell the story of the 400 years of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties in the Western Regions after the "War between Han and Hungary". (The timeline of this book continues from the author's first book, "Four Hundred Years of the Western Regions: The Battle between Han and Hungary").

"The Wonders of Shengjing Bagua Street" aims to use Bagua Street as the entry point to conduct an investigation and pursuit of the culture of Bagua Street. It also aims to conduct an in-depth exploration and detailed combing of the cultural spirit of Shenyang, a famous historical and cultural city. "The Wonders of Shengjing Bagua Street" uses a creative method that combines historical facts and folk legends to record the construction and century-old history of Bagua Street from different angles, with 16 selected stories. Judging from these anecdotes, they are rich in content, including local customs, celebrity stories, behavioral norms, and principles of life. They are full of knowledge, thought, and readability. Some stories are not only spread in Liaoshen area, but also widely spread at home and abroad. It not only allows readers to broaden their horizons and becomes a talking point for ordinary people after dinner, but also provides a subtle education for young people to learn knowledge and experience and cultivate them with good moral sentiments and values. It also provides rich research materials for the history of modern economic development and urban construction.

"Unscientific Traditional Chinese Maps - Research on Traditional Chinese Map Drawing" written by Cheng Yinong is a general work on the study of traditional Chinese cartography. The contents of this book include: a re-evaluation of the "Six Cartographies" and "Planning and Drawing Methods", the drawing methods and data sources of national general maps, the drawing history of ancient Chinese city maps, and the drawing methods of other types of maps, etc.

Tuyuhun is one of the local ethnic minority regimes established from the source of the Yellow River in the northwest to the Tao River basin in my country from the Southern and Northern Dynasties to the early Sui and Tang Dynasties. Because it was exposed to different geopolitical relationships at different historical stages, its traffic pattern has always undergone different changes. This is not only the result of the constraints of its living environment, but also the result of the changing relationship with its surroundings during its development process. During the special historical period of the Sixteen Kingdoms and the Northern and Southern Dynasties, although Tuyuhun's internal traffic was cramped and concentrated, its external traffic was very long and extensive. This reflected the difficulty of the Tuyuhun regime in establishing a foothold in the Hetao area. In particular, the pre-Qin, Western Qin, Southern Liang, Northern Wei and other regimes strongly squeezed the Tuyuhun's activity range from north to south. Although it restricted the tribe's development in the Hetao River Basin, it also promoted its development on the "Tuyuhun Road". In short, the changes and characteristics of the Tuyuhun traffic pattern can be reflected that during most of the period of its founding, the Tuyuhun regime was in a state of rushing westward and southward on the Tuyuhun Road, constantly seeking a foothold.

Datong is located in the northern part of the Shanxi Plateau and the center of the Datong Basin. It is known as the "Key to the North" because it guards the choke points of Shanxi, Hebei and Mongolia. Since ancient times, northern nomads and Central Plains farming people have competed for important territory. Datong City is one of the first batch of historical and cultural cities approved by the State Council. The long history of urban development before the Qing Dynasty has been evolving under the alternating rule of the Han nationality and ethnic minority regimes, with distinctive characteristics of ethnic integration. The history of urban development of Datong is a typical inland frontier city in northern my country. This book systematically analyzes the urban transformation process of Datong from a historical geographical perspective and believes that it presents an urban spatial development pattern centered on the "outer city" of Pingcheng in the Northern Wei Dynasty, a functional urban setting with a "military town" as the main line, an urban street layout based on the "lifang structure", and an urban residential structure based on diverse integration. "Ethnic relations" are the macro-political factors that influence the development of Datong City, "One Belt and One Land" are the meso-level geographical factors that determine the functional positioning of Datong City, and "important border defense towns" are the micro-military factors that shape the urban construction pattern of Datong. Systematically summarizing the evolution patterns of Datong's urban historical geography is of great significance for expanding the field of urban historical geography research and providing theoretical support for urban development.

This book mainly studies the historical development of the 27 EU member states. The time span is from prehistory to the present day, covering the historical process, national formation, state construction, and international relations of the EU member states. The book is divided into chapters based on geographical location and country. It is divided into 5 chapters: Northern Europe, Western Europe, Central Europe, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. It is divided into sections based on specific countries. It includes 27 member states of the European Union. It integrates relevant historical documents from China and abroad, and includes the latest research results in the field of world history. This book analyzes relevant historical events from the perspectives of historical materialism and dialectical materialism, summarizes the laws of historical development, and discusses the process of European civilization, thereby providing first-hand information for relevant EU research.

This book is a multi-disciplinary empirical material using history, geography, archaeology, etc., Starting from the source of the Silk Road in prehistoric times to the contemporary "Belt and Road" spatial pattern, and discusses the formation, development and trade exchanges of the main routes of the Silk Road. This book has a broad vision, covers ancient and modern times, and covers both China and the West. It is an academic work with detailed historical facts, vivid writing, and strong readability.

This book proposes a "1+2+3+4+5+6" knowledge framework about Latin America and the Caribbean, which is to regard the region as a whole and divide the countries in the region into two groups (Latin American countries and Caribbean countries). From the spatial dimension, the region is divided into three sub-geographical regions (Central America, the Caribbean, and South America) according to geographical location. From the time dimension, the development process of Latin America and the Caribbean is divided into four historical stages (the period of the formation of ancient indigenous agricultural civilization and land ownership, the period of colonial rule and the formation of large estates, the period of Caudillo's administration and the prosperity of primary product exports, and the period of populism and development transformation). For major Latin American countries, this book focuses on five aspects: economy, natural environment, society, politics, and international relations, while highlighting the respective characteristics of different countries. Land ownership, large estates, Caudilloism, populism, structuralism, and neoliberalism are six important historical and realistic clues that influence the development of Latin America and the Caribbean.

This book records the descriptions of the Anti-Japanese War museums and exhibition halls related to the Anti-Japanese War in various places in the three northeastern provinces in the form of the author's travel notes. Through the author's personal experience and inspection of the physical museums, this book explains the author's cognition and perception of the exhibition halls. The author selects some exhibition halls with regional characteristics and strong historical and cultural backgrounds for research and organization, and compares the similarities and differences among them to inspire readers and serve as a reference for researchers. Most of the selected exhibition halls are based on the theme of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War, reflecting the relevant content and historical discussion of the Northeast Anti-Japanese War.

The study of historical rural geography focuses on the changes in regional geography in historical periods, with counties as the core unit, and is one of the important branches of historical geography. The content of this book is mainly divided into four parts, namely Cold Food Festival Culture, Political Regions and Place Names, Settlement Geography, and Disasters. It systematically combs and analyzes the changes in the historical geography of the Jiexiu area from various aspects such as Cold Food Festival culture, political region evolution and place name characteristics, settlement construction and distribution pattern, and the occurrence of disasters in historical periods. Among them, different interpretations and interpretations are put forward on major issues such as the cultural evolution of the Cold Food Festival and urban disasters, and the significance of academic innovation is outstanding. This book is a relatively rare research monograph on historical rural geography in China and has high academic value.

This book relies on historical geography and regional history, absorbs academic achievements in related disciplines, explains the historical impact of Beijing becoming the capital or companion capital on the city itself, surrounding areas and even other provinces in my country in terms of population, resources, environment, society, etc., And explores the "man-land relationship" caused by urban development. It focuses on the historical process of changes in the "system", the general rules and the interrelationships of various constituent elements. It is committed to paying attention to practical issues through historical research, trying to broaden the research fields of regional historical geography and local history, and providing theoretical support and historical reference for promoting the coordinated development of contemporary Beijing and the integrated development of Beijing, Tianjin and Hebei.

Human beings, who possess and surpass the abilities of most creatures on the earth, rely on their increasingly developed abilities of organization, production, consumption and reproduction to gradually evolve into the masters of the earth. Not only has this process not been blocked by other forces, but it is also driven by its nature to move towards the future. The tremendous pressure and disturbance this momentum has exerted on the earth's environment has naturally aroused widespread concern among people and people at all levels around the world. "See the beginning to know the beginning, see the end to know the end." When the disciplines of historical geography and environmental history examine and explain the ability and evolutionary direction of individuals and groups of human societies, they have a special perspective and analytical advantage due to their familiarity with natural science and historical scientific research methods. The academic community has already done some such research work. The author has followed in his footsteps and offered a brief introduction. More expectations are focused on the majority of scholars.

This book starts from the study of floods, takes the issue of urban change as the main line, and focuses on the theme of the impact of Yellow River floods on urban changes in the downstream areas and the interactive relationship between the two. It systematically explores the decline and regeneration of downstream cities, as well as the pattern evolution, center of gravity shift process and its internal reasons in the Ming and Qing Dynasties against the backdrop of frequent floods and changes in the ecological environment. This book uses the research methods of historical geography, urban history, disaster history, ecological history and other disciplines to systematically sort out the historical materials of the Yellow River disaster, and conducts a relatively comprehensive collection and arrangement of the Yellow River historical records of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, local chronicles of downstream provinces, cities and counties, compilations, archives, and various survey materials; it also uses field investigation methods to discover first-hand information, combining macro research with micro research, overall research and case studies; and draws on the historical map method. , Using the river course map, survey map and city site map data, we studied the Yellow River hydrology and floods, Yellow River floods and urban morphological changes, Yellow River floods and urban economic changes, Yellow River floods and urban social changes, etc., Striving to accurately reflect the distribution status and changing trends of the research objects in space or time, in order to draw scientific and reasonable conclusions, and provide some reference for more rational protection and utilization of the Yellow River, and protection of urban development in the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

This book mainly focuses on maps collected in ancient books that have been neglected for a long time, and combines them with picture books, journals and stone-engraved maps published by various libraries. It contains more than 500 types of maps before the Qing Dynasty. The book first gives a brief introduction to the ancient books that contain maps. Then, based on this, through comparative analysis, the maps with origin relationships are classified and listed according to genealogy, and the relationships and important differences between the maps belonging to each genealogy are briefly explained. The last part uses maps as the main material to discuss some issues that have been ignored or misunderstood in the study of ancient maps.

This book starts from the perspective of "knowledge and institutional transformation in modern China" and examines the historical process of chart compilation of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River during the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. It re-evaluates the textual value of the traditional chart of the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, and then considers the interactive relationship between the transformation of modern waterway chart compilation and the changes in Sichuan River shipping. Research shows that modern Chinese cartography's recognition and acceptance of Western surveying and mapping technology and cartographic knowledge was a rather complex process of "localized" knowledge production involving Western cultural communicators and local mapmakers. Only by fully understanding the complexity between "tradition" and "modernity" can we truly reconstruct the interpretation system of "modernity" issues in Chinese cartographic history. At the same time, only by compromising "comprehensive modernity" and "local tradition" and paying attention to the creation process of "modern tradition" since the late Qing Dynasty can we rediscover the historical path and specific way for Chinese society to move toward "modernity."

This book uses the theories and methods of related disciplines such as geography and history, and based on the extensive collection of various historical materials such as local chronicles, folk documents, and foreign documents, combined with field surveys, explores the historical origins and important contributions of Fujian and the Maritime Silk Road from the geographical environment and historical dimensions. Multi-dimensional analysis of the internal relationship between the Maritime Silk Road and social changes in Fujian in modern times from the perspectives of regional populations, folk beliefs, and changes in political regions. It focuses on the connection between macro-level argumentation and micro-explanation, conducts regional comparisons, examines regional social differences, and reveals the mechanism and regional characteristics of the Maritime Silk Road on the social changes in Fujian in modern times.

"Proceedings of the Academic Seminar on "Interaction and Symbiosis on the Silk Road"" is composed of more than 20 carefully selected papers from the conference papers of the academic seminar on "Interaction and Symbiosis on the Silk Road" jointly organized by the China Society for the History of Chinese-Foreign Relations and the China Northeast Asia Research Center of Dalian University in October 2016. Against the backdrop of the country's advocacy of the "One Belt, One Road" initiative, and from the perspective of global history, this collection of essays examines the historical phenomenon and trajectory of different civilizations' continuous interaction and win-win symbiosis on the Silk Road. It focuses particularly on the important historical roles played by the countries and civilizations in Northeast Asia, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia on the Silk Road. It has important academic promotion in the current study of the Silk Road, and is also of great reference significance for the current national "One Belt, One Road" policies.

The Republic of China was an important stage in the transformation of Xi'an from tradition to modernity. As one of the most important infrastructures in the city, the development and evolution of roads is often the forerunner of urban change. This book uses the theoretical methods of historical geography and related disciplines, taking the evolution of the urban road system in Xi'an during the Republic of China as an entry point, and discusses it from three levels: restoring the evolution of the urban road system, analyzing the relationship between the evolution of the road system and municipal management changes, and exploring the conflicts between roads, vehicles, and people in the process of road utilization and the transformation of urban governance reflected in management, in order to deeply understand the modern transformation process of Xi'an during the Republic of China. Using the evolution of the road system as a carrier, this book attempts to explore new ideas for the study of historical urban geography from the perspective of modern transformation from three levels: material entity construction, upper-level institutional evolution, and urban social change.

This book examines the township organizations and local politics in Fujian and Taiwan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and explores the social changes after the Song Dynasty and the transformation of China's traditional social structure. It can be roughly divided into four topics: township organization and shared economy, family structure and clan organization, folk beliefs and ritual traditions, and local administration and social transformation. The topic of "township and nation" is always worthy of in-depth discussion by academic circles. The author Zheng Zhenman's integrated vision and problem awareness in his research, as well as the extensive field surveys and the compilation and analysis of local documents and folk documents as the basis of his research, have continued to inspire academic fields such as historical anthropology, economic history, regional studies, and grassroots governance. This book can be called one of the classic works of the so-called "South China School". In this new edition, the author has revised the entire text.

From the perspective of historical geography, this book explores the process of the Qing Dynasty's deepening of "controlling the land and governing the people" in Yunnan. By sorting out the changes in different land and population management systems such as formal administrative divisions, the Mu Family Village, the Weisuo system, and the chieftain system, it reveals the integrated evolution of Yunnan's administrative divisions and administrative management systems in the Qing Dynasty. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, Yunnan's formal administrative divisions had been established in a vast area except the chieftain areas in the semi-circle of the southwest border. The Qing Dynasty's power to directly "control the land and govern the people" in Yunnan had been greatly deepened and expanded. "Governing the land and governing the people" was the basis for the integrated evolution of Yunnan's administrative divisions and administrative management systems in the Qing Dynasty, and was also the intrinsic factor driving its development and evolution.

Shifang Pujue Temple is located at the foot of Shou'an Mountain in Haidian, Beijing. It was named after Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty. The temple was first built in the early years of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty. There is a sandalwood reclining Buddha in the temple. During the Yingzong reign of the Yuan Dynasty, a bronze reclining Buddha of 500,000 kilograms was cast and enshrined in the temple. It is commonly known as the Reclining Buddha Temple among the people. Shifang Puchue Temple is one of the oldest temples in Beijing. Since the Yuan Dynasty, it has been a royal temple. It has a large scale, high level, numerous scriptures and unique scenery. It is quite famous among the temples in the capital. In the Qing Dynasty, during the reigns of Yongzheng and Qianlong, it was expanded and the emperor's palace was built. It is now a national key cultural relic protection unit.

"Waterway Picture Scroll: Research on the Map of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the Qing Dynasty\u002F Historical Archaeological Research Series\u002F Library of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences" written by Wang Yao is a relatively systematic and in-depth investigation, arrangement and study of the existing maps of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal in the Qing Dynasty at home and abroad. "Investigation and arrangement" are embodied in: clarifying the canal map collection organization, collection path, map preservation status, and classifying and cataloging. "Research" is concentrated on three levels: first, to study issues such as the content, age of expression, value of the picture, and version origin of a single canal map; second, to explore the characteristics and background of different types of canal maps, and to summarize the spatiotemporal differences and causes of canal map drawings; third, to explore the value of canal map image historical materials, and conduct research attempts to corroborate the history of pictures and prove history with pictures. In short, this "book" is a new exploration of the study of type maps in ancient Chinese maps, and also attempts to provide new historical materials and new ideas for the study of the history of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, geographical records and county records gradually became richer and showed a trend of landscape and literature. The literary achievements of "Shui Jing Zhu" are due to its reference and absorption of these geographical literature documents. In addition to explicit citations, he also implicitly cited and copied a large number of these documents. Due to the passage of time, these documents have been lost. This book carefully sorts out and verifies the main geographical literature documents cited in "Shui Jing Zhu" to provide scholars with information convenience for future research. At the same time, it also aims to demonstrate the importance of these geographical literature documents for the writing of "Shui Jing Zhu". "Shui Jing Zhu" further develops and progresses along the path of landscape and literaryization of geographical records and county records in the Han, Wei, Jin and Song dynasties. It is the greatest collection of geographical records and general geographical records of the Six Dynasties.

Research on issues related to border areas has always been a hot topic in academic circles. This book uses the methods of historical geography, geography, sociology and other related disciplines to examine the interactive relationship between the border areas of Hebei, Henan, Shanxi and Shandong provinces during the Ming and Qing dynasties and the Republic of China from aspects such as the establishment and adjustment of political districts in the border areas, unrest protection, water conservancy development, disaster adjustment, transportation facility management, and the spread of belief culture, and builds a mechanism for regional interaction in the border areas. This book has promoted the development of regional historical geography research to a certain extent, and also has important reference significance for the study of effective governance and harmonious regional development in the areas involved.

"Geography and World Hegemony" is the career masterpiece of British geographer and geopolitics James Fairgriff. Using interdisciplinary perspectives such as geography, history, politics, and anthropology, the book traces the development of the world from ancient times to the early 20th century, subverting many of the social development questions that people are accustomed to. By introducing concepts such as "geographical conditions," "energy," and "dominance," it sorts out the context of world history with a systematic explanatory framework, provides us with a new thinking perspective for understanding human history, and presents a profound history of the development of human civilization.