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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 723–733.
Published: 01 August 1984
...Ping-ti Ho Abstract K. C. Chang has been instrumental in the West in propagating the view that North China in Neolithic times was lush, moist, and densely forested. A close scrutiny of data relating to palynology, soil science, and paleoclimate, however, indicates that the true loess areas of North...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (4): 547–554.
Published: 01 August 1976
..., metallurgy, script, language, religion including the system of divination, social and political thought—is marked at once by a regionally distinctive Sinitic character and by a pattern of centrifugal geographic spread from the southeastern portion of the loess highlands of North China. The detailed evidence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1984) 43 (4): 627–628.
Published: 01 August 1984
... of data relating to palynology, soil science, and paleoclimate, however, indicates that the true loess areas of North China were, and have always been, semiarid steppe. In addition, the author considers Chang's belief that the earliest northern Chinese agriculture was a system of slash-and-burn...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1960) 19 (4): 389–402.
Published: 01 August 1960
..., wind may cause sand dunes to migrate uphill. Fine silt particles may be lifted high into the air and transported great distances; where such silts are trapped by the scanty steppe vegetation which encircles a desert basis, loess accumulates. One obvious geomorphic mark of the desert is the presence...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 281–283.
Published: 01 February 1958
... and occasional cliches. To mention a few: ". . . winds and water deposited layers of fertile loess soil. . ." (p. 8) the winds deposited the loess during arid glacial periods (Ma-lan formation), the water cut into the loess in post-glacial times (Pan-ch'iao erosion); "Western Chou territory was lost to the Ch'in...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (2): 278–281.
Published: 01 February 1958
... a few: ". . . winds and water deposited layers of fertile loess soil. . ." (p. 8) the winds deposited the loess during arid glacial periods (Ma-lan formation), the water cut into the loess in post-glacial times (Pan-ch'iao erosion); "Western Chou territory was lost to the Ch'in by 256 B.C." (p. 11...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2022) 81 (4): 759–761.
Published: 01 November 2022
... beyond the human control. She writes, “in the end, it was the inexorable deposit of sediment from the eroded Loess Plateau, not any failures of engineering or administration, that doomed late imperial floodplain hydrosystem to collapse” (p. 238). By focusing on the river's sediment and erosion processes...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1970) 30 (1): 170–171.
Published: 01 November 1970
... of foreign versus native influences. Whether or not the Chinese independently invented bronze, the development of it was uniquely Chinese, for it makes use of a unique technique employing local material, loess, and the methods related to local ceramic technology- The chapter on chemical analysis is superb...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1980) 39 (2): 347–349.
Published: 01 February 1980
..., Bibliography, Index. $10.95. The Huang He. "China's Sorrow." The river which never runs clear. Although a middleweight among the world's streams, the Yellow River is the heaviest of the heavies in the silt load which it rolls down from the loess plateau to form the world's largest bay fill, the North China...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (4): 862–864.
Published: 01 August 1985
... in the preliminary review of his work on paleoenvironmental problems associated with the Upper Karewa Pleistocene lake sediments of the Kashmir Valley. Because his analysis is continuing, he reports only a series of Carbon-14 measurements on loess deposits overlying paleosoils, a last deglaciation at about 18,000...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (2): 453–478.
Published: 26 March 2010
... level. During the last ice age, a layer of loess was deposited over the landscape, settling on flatter ridges and later spreading out in the narrow valleys as alluvium. As a result of long-term processes of naturally occurring erosion, loess was completely removed from Huanglongshan's steep hillsides...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 469.
Published: 01 May 1964
...-shih te wu-hui). regionalization in China, the source and na- Mr. Ssu-ma Lu, an ex-Communist and now ture of the data available, the origin of water a free-lance writer in Hong Kong, has written control as an economic function of the State, this biography in the light of Ch'ii's own "the loess region...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 394–395.
Published: 01 May 1955
..., and numerous local, superior sites were separated from each other in space and situation. The total central area of such landscapes is in the vicinity of 200,000 square miles. After the close of the glacial era, as loess deposition and alluvial sedimentation slowed down, this region would seem to have been...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2012) 71 (3): 821–822.
Published: 01 August 2012
... context would offer a more well-rounded and informative presentation. Beginning with two stories by Kim Tong-ni from the late colonial period (“The Shaman Painting” [1936] and “Loess Valley” [1939]) and one by Hwang Sun-wŏn published three years after Liberation (“The Game Beaters” [1948...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 1125–1127.
Published: 01 November 2016
... capacity of “ordering the water” (p. 7). And not just any water. It had to be the Yellow River, the “cradle of Chinese civilization,” no matter how much silt perennially drained into the river as it completed its Big Bend around the Loess Plateau. The inundations of the Yellow River made and remade...
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Far Eastern Quarterly (1955) 14 (3): 393–394.
Published: 01 May 1955
... of such landscapes is in the vicinity of 200,000 square miles. After the close of the glacial era, as loess deposition and alluvial sedimentation slowed down, this region would seem to have been the most attractive part of eastern Asia to groups of people just learning to handle the simplest problems of rudimentary...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2023) 82 (4): 698–700.
Published: 01 November 2023
... history of a region that came to acquire subcontinental—and eventually global—significance. The book focuses on the Guanzhong basin, where the Yellow River meets the Wei between the Loess Plateau to the north and the Qinling mountain range to the south. This is “the heartland of Chinese civilization” (2...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1985) 44 (3): 625–626.
Published: 01 May 1985
... to the Korean shelves. For the modest acquisitions budget, or for the individual who can afford or at least deduct the high price, I would recommend any of the following six: Loess Valley, works by Kim Tongni and O Yongsu; The Drizzle, works by Hwang Sunwon and Yi Pomson; Hospital Room 205, stories by women...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (3): 468–469.
Published: 01 May 1964
...). regionalization in China, the source and na- Mr. Ssu-ma Lu, an ex-Communist and now ture of the data available, the origin of water a free-lance writer in Hong Kong, has written control as an economic function of the State, this biography in the light of Ch'ii's own "the loess region and the central Huang Ho...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1958) 17 (4): 611–612.
Published: 01 August 1958
... on calling Kufu), several plates of the Yangtze, Kwangsi, and eroded loess in Honan are remarkable, and there are many sensitive and exciting pictures of the riotously green landscape of southern Asia, good enough so that they do not appear to suffer from the absence of color. Comments on the plates...