Karya ini berbahasa Inggris, isinya mengenai seni bangunan, patung dan relief pada Candi Borobudur
IS Shanghai the same place it was six or seven years ago, when this book was written? In one sense, it is; yet in a hundred ways it is a different city. The opening of Shanghai as a treaty port is not a matter of ancient history, since it is not so very long ago that the first foreign woman resident died. But how rapid and marvellous have been the changes, especially during the past decade! We …
Riding the Iron Rooster is a travel book by Paul Theroux primarily about his travels through China in the 1980s. One of his aims was to disprove the Chinese proverb, You can always deceive foreigners". It won the 1989 Thomas Cook Travel Book Award."
PROLOGUE : THE VALLEYS OF the Yellow River, said the French explorer and writer Pierre Teilhard de Chardın in 1923, struck him as 'austere and desolate regions in which the mind, as well as the body, is exposed defenceless to all the great winds of the earth. He went on: 'These immense expanses, grey and flat, out of all proportion to our plains of western Europe, and these completely bare and…
This volume is concerned with cultural geog- raphy in its widest interpretation. Most of the materials with which cultural geographers must deal are tangible and can be viewed in terms of regional distribution and analysis. These tangibles form the primary contexts of discussion throughout the book. Beyond them, however, there are important but less tangible characteristics of peoples and place…
I have just visited China.rnI went with much pleasure and even keener interest, a pleasure and interest which increased the longer I stayed there.rnrnIt is only today that the peoples of the whole world, and of Africa in particular, are really beginning to form a correct idea of this great country and great people China and the Chinese.rnrnPreviously the artificial barriers set up by colonialis…
streets and place in Hong kong
Monsoon Asia is the southern and eastern part of Asia, including India, Pakistan and Ceylon; China and Japan; and all the peninsulas and islands of the south-east as far as New Guinea and the Philippines. But it is more than an area of land or an assemblage of countries. It is a geographical region. To be acceptable as a geographical region an area must satisfy the following conditions:rnrnI-ho…