China :A great people a great destiny

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…

Hong Kong streets & places

streets and place in Hong kong

The monsoon lands of Asia

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…

An Australian in China

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0 19 583903 X

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xv, 299 pages

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915.03 Mor a

Borneo bagian barat :Geografis, statistis, historis 1854

Kritik yang sering dilontarkan orang kepada Veth adalah bahwa ia tidak pernah datang dan tinggal di Hindia Belanda, kritik ini ada benarnya, karena untuk keperluan penelitian ber- bagai cabang keilmuan, seperti antropologi, etnologi, dan geografi, orang harus melaku- kannya di lapangan, agar pendapatnya tidak diragukan. Namun pendapat ini sebenarnya menunjukkan kurangnya pemahaman tentang cara …

Area handbook for Japan

The present handbook attempts to furnish in compact form an objective description of the social, political, and economic aspects of Japan to mid-1973.

Amsterdam

Bukankah telah sering orang mentjoba untuk membandingkan Amsterdam dengan kota2 lain didunia? Misalnja dengan kota kepala pemerintah Itali dahulu, Venetia, karena parit2-nja jang indah dan dengan Paris ibu kota Perantjis karena suasananja. Tetapi ibu kota negeri Belanda itu tidak dapat dibandingkan dengan kota jang manapun didunia. Amsterdam, jang dalam tahun 1975 akan merajakan hari ulang tahu…

The making of the Romanian people and language

The growth of the Romanian people in the Carpatho- Danubian area and its continuity in this area is a process similar to the growth and continuity of the other Romance European peoples: the French, Italians, Spaniards and Portuguese. With all these peoples we see first a basic ethnic element: the Gauls in France, the Celtiberians in Spain and and Portugal, the Gauls in the north and the Etrusca…

Western impressions of nature and landscape in Southeast Asia

This book is based substantially on my doctoral dissertation (The Western Cognition of Nature and Landscape in South- east Asia) submitted to the Geography Department, Uni- versity of California, Berkeley in June 1982. I owe a depth of gratitude to the many people that have made both the dissertation and book possible.

Inside Russia today

for a long time ago i have wanted to write an Inside book about the Soviet Union, and this is it. In general it follows the pettern of Inside Europe, Inside U.S.A, Inside Africa, and so on, but the canvas is more restricted still, big enough. After all the Soviet Union covers close to one-sixth of the land surface of the globe, and has put its own moons into the sky.