Abstract
AN account of geographic research in China by Prof. Chi-Yun Chang (Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geog., 39, No. 1, March 1944) contains a record of a great deal of valuable work, much of which, under present conditions, may have escaped notice in Great Britain. Large numbers of topographical maps have been printed recently including a bathyorographical one of the whole of China on a scale of one to three million. A beginning of land utilization maps has been made, and a generalized soil map has been published. The Research Institute of Meteorology of the Chinese Academy has been investigating the problems of winds and rainfall over China with the result that the old conception of the south-east monsoon being chiefly responsible for the rainfall has been displaced in favour of cyclonic influences being mainly responsible: most of the rainfall appears to be associated with cold fronts. In historical and other aspects of human geography research has also been active. The report also notes the development of geographical education, probably temporarily interrupted, the foundation of the Chinese Institute of Geography and a number of geographical periodicals.
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Geographical Research in China. Nature 154, 458 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154458a0
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