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An Historical Geography of Peiping (Hardcover)
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An Historical Geography of Peiping (Hardcover)
Series: China Academic Library
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This book is about the city of Peiping in China, also known as
Beijing and Peking, and a city of great historical significance.
Divided into three parts, this work explores Peiping first as a
frontier city at a time when the Great Wall was established, from
the Chou dynasty (ca.1122-220 B.C.) until the T'ang Dynasties up to
the Khitan Occupation (A.D. 590-937). The second part explores
Peiping as it becomes a national centre, through the Liao Dynasty
and the Chin Dynasty, until 1234, and the third part explores how
it became the capital of the Chinese empire, until 1911. This work
is a historical geography and the introduction details
topographical features and geographical relations of the city,
describing the way in which the mountains rise from the plain
creating concave arms to enclose Peiping, leading to the name, the
'Bay of Peiping'. We learn that the mountains frequently reach over
3000ft and have practically no foot-hills, whilst the bay itself is
filled with sediments of gravel, sand, loam and loess which have
been deposited in horizontal strata, to a great depth. Numerous
illustrations and figures are included, and readers will see how
the city sits between two rivers, the Hun ( or Muddy River) and the
Pai ( or White River). These chapters reveal how each river has
made its contribution to the material development of the city and
its environs, including through irrigation and as the Hun River
shifted its course. Owing to the geography of the region, almost
all roads leading from the northern lands of Mongolia and Manchuria
to the great plain of North China in the south are bound to
converge at Peiping. The historical consequences of this, as well
as local climate conditions and other aspects of geography are
explored in this book, which traces the historical rise to eminence
of Peiping.
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