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Book cover Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980

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This chapter details the geographical features of China such as topography, climate, soil, river, vegetation and land use/land cover. Specifically, it describes in detail the proceedings of land reclamation, the changes of administrative boundaries in China from Qing Dynasty (1644–1911) to Republic of China (1912–1949) and finally to People’s Republic of China (1949-Now), the climate changes and natural disasters. Based on these solid rich historical data, the spatial-temporal dimension of this research has been determined.

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    http://vdb3.soil.csdb.cn/.

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    https://adventuretravelinchina.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/natural-vegetation-in-china/.

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    http://www.nationsencyclopedia.com/Asia-and-Oceania/China-FLORA-AND-FAUNA.html.

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    http://www.geodata.cn.

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    http://gis.harvard.edu.

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  1. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Xiaobin Jin

  2. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Yinkang Zhou

  3. School of Geographic and Oceanographic Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

    Xuhong Yang

  4. School of History and Archives, Yunnan University, Kunming, Yunnan, China

    Yinong Cheng

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Jin, X., Zhou, Y., Yang, X., Cheng, Y. (2018). Study Area and Data Source. In: Historical Farmland in China During 1661-1980. Historical Geography and Geosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71879-8_3

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