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Since 1978 China has made remarkable economic progress with the average rate of growth exceeding 9% per year. The National Economic Atlas of China is the most comprehensive and detailed picture of this achievement. It is based on the largest and most far-reaching investigations ever conducted at the national level in China including the Industrial Census of 1985 and the Third and Fourth Population Censuses of 1982 and 1990. This extensive collection of data is presented in map and text form. The 265 full-color maps and text have been divided into eleven topics: geographical and administrative background; resources; population; general economy; agriculture; industry; communications; building, urban construction, and environmental protection; commerce, foreign trade, tourism and finance; education, scientific research, culture, sports, and health; and the regional comprehensive economy of each of China's provinces and major cities. The maps illustrate over 500 socioeconomic indicators at the country and city level, revealing the quantitative and qualitative aspects of China's socioeconomic growth. The text supplements and complements the maps by providing a description and analysis of each major topic, incorporating developments through 1990. This atlas offers the clearest and most comprehensive graphic picture of China ever, and makes an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the vast economic and social changes that have taken place. ... Read more

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Title: A View of China, for Philological Purposes (Microform] : Containing a Sketch of Chinese Chronology, Geography, Government, Religion ... Read more

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A compilation of years of research, this reference and textbook provides information necessary to systematically understand Chinese tourist resources, industry, and culture. The book begins with a discussion on the general theory and practice of Chinese tourism and geography and the tourist development program. It then addresses a general theory and sub-theory of Chinese Tourism Geography, which makes a macroscopic exposition of Chinese tourist resources, tourist markets, and products. It also analyzes and summarizes present projects in the Chinese tourism development. The subject of this book is suitable for students, researchers, and tourists.

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In this comprehensive study of the rhetoric, narrative patterns, and intellectual content of the Zuozhuan and Guoyu, David Schaberg reads these two collections of historical anecdotes as traces of a historiographical practice that flourished around the fourth century b.c.e. among the followers of Confucius. He contends that the coherent view of early China found in these texts is an effect of their origins and the habits of reading they impose. Rather than being totally accurate accounts, they represent the efforts of a group of officials and ministers to argue for a moralizing interpretation of the events of early Chinese history and for their own value as skilled interpreters of events and advisers to the rulers of the day. ... Read more