Immigration and Chinese Culture

Author: Fan Yu Chun
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Publish Date: 2005-12-01
Features: Migration is the main way of population change and also a basic form of social change. Chinese migration began at the same time as Chinese history. The scale of population migration in Chinese history was vast and widespread, exerting a profound and extensive influence on the development of Chinese history. From the formation and consolidation of a unified Chinese nation to the establishment of a diverse yet integrated Chinese ethnic community, and from the economic development and shifting of the economic center of China, all left deep marks of migration. This book studies the development of Chinese culture and the spatial distribution of its cultural elements from the perspective of population migration and cultural diffusion. It will take you through the long history of how the people of all ethnic groups in China created a splendid and brilliant culture. This book studies the development of Chinese culture and the spatial distribution of its cultural elements from the perspective of population migration and cultural diffusion. In terms of academic classification, it falls under the fields of historical human geography, historical population geography, and historical cultural geography. The book is divided into two parts. The first part, "Population Migration in Chinese History," provides a preliminary introduction to the situation of population migration in China during historical periods. The second part, "Migration, the Temporal Evolution and Regional Development of Chinese Culture," closely ties in with cultural history content, discussing the impact of migration on China's population geographical distribution and cultural development. This book takes the spatial movement of the Chinese population during historical periods and the cultural evolution and spatial distribution of cultural elements it caused as the research subject, studying the development of Chinese culture and the spatial distribution of its cultural elements from the perspective of population migration and cultural diffusion.