History of Chinese Landscape -- Specialized History Series

Author: Wu Bihu, Liu Xiaojuan
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Publish Date: 2004-09-01
Features: The author primarily divides the concrete cultural landscapes of Chinese culture into three major categories: settlement landscapes, industrial landscapes, and public service landscapes; non-concrete landscapes are also divided into three categories: folk culture landscapes, linguistic and literary landscapes, and religious landscapes. The structure of this book is based on this classification. Before elaborating on each type of cultural landscape, the book analyzes the formation mechanisms of cultural landscapes from the perspective of morality, emphasizing the importance of population migration in the process of landscape formation. Then, it analyzes the diffusion and integration characteristics of cultural landscapes from a historical perspective and discusses the natural environment in which cultural landscapes occur and develop. After classifying and describing various types of landscapes, the book conducts regionalization work on the overall differentiation phenomena of Chinese cultural regions. This book divides Chinese cultural landscapes into concrete and non-concrete categories, examining the formation mechanisms and diffusion and integration characteristics of these two major types of cultural landscapes. Finally, using a comprehensive analytical method, it proposes a regionalization scheme for Chinese cultural landscapes based on the spatial differentiation of agricultural and pastoral types of Chinese cultural landscapes. The main part of this book is the classification and elaboration of concrete settlement landscapes, industrial landscapes, public service landscapes, and non-concrete folk culture landscapes, linguistic and literary landscapes, and religious landscapes in Chinese cultural landscapes.