Overview
- Represents the most important academic achievements won by Dr. Renzhi Hou, one of the founding father and pioneering researchers of modern historical geography of China
- Explores the birth and growth of urban civilization in the long history of China and its cultural implications
- Serves as a window into reinvigoration of history geography, a traditional realm for Chinese intellectuals, in modern China
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: China Academic Library (CHINALIBR)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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About this book
This book represents the most important academic achievements won by Dr. Renzhi Hou, one of the founding fathers of and pioneering researchers in the modern historical geography of China. His collected papers and speeches, spanning from the 1940s to the 1990s, serve as a window into Hou’s academic experience as well as the development of the historical geography of China during the second half of the 20th century.
Dr. Hou has made his greatest contributions mainly in two areas, namely, urban historical geography and desert historical geography. Roughly a quarter of this book is devoted to the former, and above all to the study of Beijing’s historical geography and its influence on urban planning. It is worth noting that “From Beijing to Washington—A Contemplation on the Concept of Municipal Planning,” presented here, is the only historical geography-based comparative study of a Chinese city and a Western one by a Chinese scholar.
Dr. Hou’s studies on desert historical geography have garnered him a prominent reputation in the natural sciences academia. “Ancient City Ruins in the Deserts of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China,” also included here, can be considered a masterwork.
Moreover, many of his original thoughts on some interesting topics can also be found in this book, such as the communication between China and Africa in ancient times, and the rediscovery of the value of geographical classics in the modern context.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Symposium on Chinese Historical Geography
Authors: Renzhi Hou
Series Title: China Academic Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45272-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Publishing Co., Ltd and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-45271-4Published: 04 December 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-52614-9Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-45272-1Published: 21 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2195-1853
Series E-ISSN: 2195-1861
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 145
Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations
Topics: Human Geography