scholarly journals DROUGHT AND FAMINE IN NORTHWEST CHINA: A LATE VICTORIAN TRAGEDY?

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Janku
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Northwest China ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Qing Empire ◽  
Western Province ◽  
The North ◽  
Modern Chinese ◽  
History Of ◽  
Chinese Historiography ◽  
North Western

AbstractThe North China Famine of 1876–1879 has received some attention recently, but little of this work has focused on the north-western province of Shaanxi. This imbalance is reflected in the local histories that devote far more space to the documentation and commemoration of the Hui rebellion than to the famine. This paper argues that the drought of those years and the ensuing famine is historically much more significant than this biased documentation would suggest, and that the rebellion can only be fully understood by paying attention to the environmental and social conditions in which it unfolded. Further, the paper engages with Mike Davis’s argument that portrays the famine in China as part of a ‘late-Victorian holocaust.’ While persuasive, his focus on outside forces is problematic as it ignores the history of the Qing Empire as an expanding force in itself and inadvertently reinforces the victimization narrative that dominates modern Chinese historiography.

scholarly journals Diversified calcimicrobes in dendrolites of the Zhangxia Formation, Miaolingian Series (Middle Cambrian) of the North China craton

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ming-Xiang Mei ◽  
Muhammad Riaz ◽  
Zhen-Wu Zhang ◽  
Qing-Fen Meng ◽  
Yuan Hu
Keyword(s):  
North China ◽  
Cyanobacterial Mats ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Depositional Sequence ◽  
Middle Cambrian ◽  
Forming Mechanism ◽  
The North ◽  
Biological Affinity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Group 3

AbstractAs a type of non-laminated microbial carbonates, dendrolites are dominated by isolated dendritic clusters of calcimicrobes and are distinct from stromatolites and thrombolites. The dendrolites in the upper part of the Miaolingian Zhangxia Formation at Anjiazhuang section in Feicheng city of Shandong Province, China, provide an excellent example for further understanding of both growth pattern and forming mechanism of dendrolites. These dendrolites are featured by sedimentary fabrics and composition of calcified microbes as follows. (1) The strata of massive limestones, composed of dendrolites with thickness of more than one hundred meters, intergrade with thick-bedded to massive leiolites, formimg the upper part of a third-order depositional sequence that constitutes a forced regressive systems tract. (2) A centimeter-sized bush-like fabric (shrub) typically produced by calcified microbes is similar to the mesoclot in thrombolites but distinctive from clotted fabrics of thrombolites. This bush-like fabric is actually constituted by diversified calcified microbes like the modern shrub as a result of gliding mobility of filamentous cyanobacteria. Such forms traditionally include: the Epiphyton group (which actually has uncertain biological affinity), the Hedstroemia group which closely resembles modern rivulariacean cyanobacteria, and the possible calcified cyanobacteria of the Lithocodium–Bacinella group. (3) Significantly, dense micrite of leiolite is associated with sponge fossils and burrows, and is covered by microstromatolite. The Lithocodium–Bacinella group is a controversial group of interpreted calcified cyanobacteria in the Cambrian that has also been widely observed and described in the Mesozoic. Therefore, dendrolites with symbiosis of leiolites in the studied section provide an extraordinary example for further understanding of growing style of bush-like fabrics (shrubs) of the dendrolites dominated by cyanobacterial mats. Furthermore, the present research provides some useful thinking approaches for better understanding of the history of the Early Paleozoic skeletal reefs and the microbe–metazoan transitions of the Cambrian.

Deformation history of the Paleoproterozoic Liaohe assemblage in the eastern block of the North China Craton

2005 ◽  
Vol 24 (5) ◽  
pp. 659-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sanzhong Li ◽  
Guochun Zhao ◽  
Min Sun ◽  
Zongzhu Han ◽  
Yan Luo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
North China Craton ◽  
North China ◽  
Deformation History ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of

scholarly journals Between the past and the present: the Ixil Maya and the discovery of rare mural paintings in Guatemala

2014 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 169-185
Author(s):  
Jarosław Źrałka ◽  
Katarzyna Radnicka
Keyword(s):  
Colonial Period ◽  
Cultural Continuity ◽  
Wall Paintings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The North ◽  
Mural Paintings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Maya Area ◽  
Distinct Features ◽  
North Western

The Ixil Maya area is located in Quiche Department of the north-western part of the Guatemalan Highlands. It has witnessed a continuous occupation since the 1st millennium BC till today. This archaeologically interesting region has provided many important discoveries of rare cultural mixture, with distinct features typical for both Maya Highlands and more distant Lowlands. Recently, the scholarly interest has focused on Chajul where a few years ago, in one of the local houses, well preserved wall paintings dated to the Colonial period were exposed by the house owner during the process of its renovation. With this extraordinary finding a question emerged - are we able to confirm the cultural continuity between the pre-Columbian settlers and modem Ixil who claim «to be always here»? This paper presents a brief outline of the history of the Ixil Maya. It also presents results of some recent and preliminary studies conducted by Polish scholars in this region.

scholarly journals The ethnic composition of the population of Prinevye area and the Southern Ladoga area at the end of the XV century

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-72
Author(s):  
Boris I. Chibisov
Keyword(s):  
Economic History ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
Rural Settlements ◽  
North West ◽  
Introduction History ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
North Western ◽  
Descriptive Method

Introduction. History of the North-West area of Novgorod land at the end of the XV century attracted the attention of researchers mainly in the socio-economic aspect. This is due to the fact that Novgorod scribal books are dated by the end of the XV century. From the standpoint of socio-economic history their value is not in doubt, but from an ethno-historical point their onomastic content is underestimated. Materials and methods. The main source of research was the scribe book of the Vodskaya Pyatina 1499/1500. The descriptive method of research is to identify and record the Baltic-Finnish oikonyms (names of rural settlements) and anthroponyms mentioned in the scribe books. Baltic-Finnish anthroponyms are identified on the basis of an analysis of formal indicators of borrowing the anthroponyms. Results and Discussion. There are several areas where the Baltic-Finnish oikonymy and anthroponymy were concentrated, namely Korboselsky graveyard in the northern Prinevye, Lopsky and Terebuzhsky graveyards in the southern Ladoga, as well as Dudorovsky and Izhora graveyards south of the Neva. Archaeological sources record a significant presence of the Izhora antiquities. The presence of Karelians is noted in the northern Prievye and southern Ladoga. Slavic onomastic materials are recorded throughout Orekhovsky and Ladoga counties, but to mostly in the cities of Oreshka, Ladoga and their nearest areas. Conclusion. By the end of the XV century the north-western graveyards of Novgorod land were inhabited by representatives of various ethnic groups: Slavs, Vodians, Izhora and Karelians, as evidenced by the data of anthroponyms and toponyms of the scribe’s books and confirmed by archaeological sources.

scholarly journals Genetic diversity and demographic history of the terrestrial hermit crabs Birgus latroand Coenobita brevimanusin the North-Western Pacific Region

2015 ◽  
Vol 35 (6) ◽  
pp. 793-803 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuyuki Hamasaki ◽  
Ayaka Sugimoto ◽  
Asuka Ojima ◽  
Chikako Iizuka ◽  
Mio Sugizaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Diversity ◽  
Demographic History ◽  
Western Pacific ◽  
Hermit Crabs ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Western Pacific Region ◽  
The North ◽  
History Of ◽  
North Western ◽  
North Western Pacific

Provincializing the International: Communist Print Worlds in Colonial India

2020 ◽  
Vol 89 ◽  
pp. 140-153
Author(s):  
Ali Raza
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
British India ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
Western Province ◽  
The North ◽  
Colonial Archive ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The One ◽  
North Western ◽  
Global Project

Abstract This paper charts communist print worlds in colonial India during the interwar period. Beginning in the early 1920s, self-declared ‘Communist’ and ‘Bolshevik’ publications began surfacing across India. Through the example of the Kirti Kisan Sabha (Workers and Peasants Party: a communist group in the north-western province of Punjab), and its associated publications, this paper will provide a glimpse into the rich, diverse and imaginative print worlds of Indian communism. From 1926 onwards, Kirti publications became a part of a thriving print culture in which a dizzying variety of revolutionary, socialist and communist publications competed and conversed with the equally prolific and rich print worlds of their political and ideological rivals. Removed on the one hand from the ivory towers of party intellectuals, dense treatises and officious theses, and on the other hand from the framing of sedition, rebellion and fanaticism in the colonial archive, Kirti publications show how the global project of communist internationalism became distinctly provincialized and vernacularized in British India.

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