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Chinas’s sorrow :Journeys around the yellow river

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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 rocky mountains, provide no moral hand-hold. One feels lost in such undemarcated country.'rnrnIt was for these valleys that, in three journeys undertaken between the summer of 1982 and the spring of 1983, I was bound. In such undemarcated country I hoped to see China in all its diversity. For between the two ends of the Yellow River stretches almost the whole range of Chinese life, from highland nomadism to offshore drilling, by way of hydroelec- tric power-stations, irrigated rice fields, towns, communes, and places of worship, work and rest. I thought that I would see China at its source, and Chinese man against his earliest setting, for the yellow earth of the river valleys was Chinese civilisation's seedbed. And the special attributes of the river having since time immemorial provided the context for human struggle and enterprise in China, I thought, too, I would see something of the transformation of society, as this is reflected by the transformation of the river itself.

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915.110458 Pan c

Publisher

London : Century Publishing., 1985

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272 pages

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English

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0712607323

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915.110458

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HISTORY
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