Nanny Kim: Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700–1850. (Monies, Markets and Finance in East Asia, 1600–1900.) xxv, 621 pp. Leiden: Brill, 2020. €149. ISBN 978 90 04 41509 6.

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-2
Author(s):  
Richard von Glahn
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Mountain Rivers

The Spread of Erlitou Yazhang to South China and the Origin and Dispersal of Early Political States

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-223
Author(s):  
Chung Tang ◽  
Fang Wang
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
South China ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Political Order ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
History Analysis ◽  
Political Symbolism ◽  
Material Evidence

One of the major offshoots of the Jade Age and urban evolution of Erlitou is the role played by jade and stone as symbols of political order. The chapter considers how specific attributes of yazhang may be used to differentiate capital and secondary sites of influence in terms of state formation and Erlitou’s role in early Chinese history. Analysis of yazhang unearthed in East Asia suggests that one major and representative type and style of yazhang, Erlitou VM3:4, had a significant influence in south China during the Erlitou period. Erlitou appears to have had direct contact with the Jinsha culture in today’s Sichuan in southwest China and had relatively indirect interactions with southeast China’s Tai Wan culture in Hong Kong and the Hulinshan culture in Fujian. The replication of Erlitou yazhang in south China can be seen as representative of a political order spreading from a primary state to secondary states. Through analyses of Erlitou yazhang and other material evidence, it is possible to understand the political symbolism used in the early state. This is also significant in illustrating how states and political systems originated in wider East Asia. While the search for written evidence from the Xia period continues, archaeological remains and artifacts can provide scientific and crucial evidence to substantiate the early political state in China.

A new species of Paris sect. Axiparis (Melanthiaceae) from Yunnan, China

Phytotaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 306 (3) ◽  
pp. 234 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUNHENG JI ◽  
CHENGJIN YANG ◽  
YULING HUANG
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Species Diversity ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Medicinal Value ◽  
Health Products ◽  
Perennial Herbs ◽  
Guizhou Plateau ◽  
A New Species

Paris Linnaeus (1573: 367) is a temperate genus of about 27 species of perennial herbs distributed in Eurasia (Li 1998, Ji et al. 2007). Most species are restricted to East Asia, chiefly to China (19 species), with the Yunnnan-Guizhou Plateau in southwest China as the centre of species diversity (Li 1998). Paris is well known in China for its medicinal value. Those species with a thick rhizome have been used as medicinal herbs for more than 2,000 years in China owing to its analgesic, haemostatic, anti-tumor, and anti-inflammatory activities (Long et al. 2003). More than 40 commercial drugs and health products have been developed in China with Paris used as raw material (Li et al. 2015).

Book Reviews

Transfers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-165
Author(s):  
Sandra Dinter ◽  
Weipin Tsai ◽  
Freke Caset
Keyword(s):  
Southwest China ◽  
Mountain Rivers ◽  
Black And White ◽  
History Of

Kerri Andrews, Wanderers: A History of Women Walking (London: Reaktion Books, 2020), 303 pp., £14.99Nanny Kim, Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700–1850 (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019), xxvi, 621 pp, €149/$179Karen Chapple and Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris, Transit-Oriented Displacement or Community Dividends? (Cambridge, MA: Th e MIT Press, 2019), 347 pp., 67 black-and-white illustrations, $40.00

A new species of Pistacioxylon (Anacardiaceae) from the Miocene of Yunnan, China

IAWA Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-204 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ye-Ming Cheng ◽  
R.C. Mehrotra ◽  
Yue-Gao Jin ◽  
Wei Yang ◽  
Cheng-Sen Li
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Yunnan Province ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
History Of ◽  
A New Species

A new species of Pistacioxylon, Pistacioxylon leilaoensis Cheng et al., showing affinities with Pistacia of the Anacardiaceae is described from the Miocene of Leilao, Yuanmou Basin, Yunnan Province, southwest China. It provides data for reconstructing the phytogeographic history of Pistacia and the paleoenvironment of the Yuanmou Basin. This fossil suggests a long history of exchange of various taxa including Pistacia between Europe and East Asia during the Tertiary.

French Adventurers and Chinese Bandits in Tonkin: The Garnier Affair in its Local Context

1975 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-51
Author(s):  
Ella S. Laffey
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
River Delta ◽  
Red River ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Red River Delta ◽  
Direct Route

In November of 1873 a force of a few hundred men — French marine troops,’ Chinese regulars from Yunnan, and the sweepings of the ports of East Asia — took? the citadel of Hanoi and gave France the opportunity to add Tonkin to her possessions in Indochina. It was a bold venture, but hardly unplanned. The two most prominent figures in the affair, Jean Dupuis and Francis Garnier, had long been interested in opening southwest China by a direct route through actual or potential French territory, and Dupuis had been taking steps in this direction; since 1868. The attempt had the discreet — if not actually surreptitious — support of the current governor of Cochinchina, admiral Dupré. Yet by the end of December Francis Garnier was dead, his conquests in the Red River delta had been given back to the Vietnamese, and France's chief negotiator for the liquidation of the affair had branded the acts of Dupuis and Garnier as “odious aggression”. Dazzling victory turned into stunning defeat almost overnight, and France was to wait eight years before taking up the initiative of Dupuis and Garnier in Tonkin.

scholarly journals Influence of East Asia Pacific Teleconnection and Scandinavian Teleconnection on Summer Precipitation in Southwest China

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
mingxin yang ◽  
Tiangui Xiao ◽  
Ping Zhao ◽  
Yong Li ◽  
Wei Huang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Southwest China ◽  
Summer Precipitation ◽  
Significant Negative Correlation ◽  
Reanalysis Data ◽  
Teleconnection Pattern ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
The South ◽  
Teleconnection Patterns ◽  
The North

Abstract Based on the summer precipitation data of 328 stations in Southwest China in 50 years and the reanalysis data of NCEP / NCAR monthly geopotential height field, and wind field, the relationship between summer precipitation in Southwest China and East Asia Pacific teleconnection pattern (EAP) and Scandinavian teleconnection pattern (SCA) is explored by using EOF, correlation analysis and synthetic analysis. The research results show that: the summer precipitation distribution in Southwest China is mainly divided into two types: the whole region consistent type and the north-south contrary type. EAP teleconnection patterns and SCA teleconnection patterns have a significant negative correlation with the precipitation in Southwest China during the same period. In the active year (teleconnection indices >= 0.3 or <= 0.3), the two teleconnection patterns mostly appear in the same phase, and the distribution of the precipitation is consistent with the second mode distribution of the EOF for summer precipitation in Southwest China, showing a north-south contrary distribution in Southwest China. The two types of teleconnections are divided into two configurations, both of which are positive phase (configuration I), and both are negative phase (configuration II). Configuration I, the summer precipitation in Southwest China presents the distribution of "more in the south and less in the north"; configuration II, the distribution of precipitation is opposite to that configuration I, showing the distribution of "more in the north and less in the south".

The longest theropod trackway from East Asia, and a diverse sauropod-, theropod-, and ornithopod-track assemblage from the Lower Cretaceous Jiaguan Formation, southwest China

2015 ◽  
Vol 56 ◽  
pp. 345-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lida Xing ◽  
Martin G. Lockley ◽  
Jianping Zhang ◽  
Hendrik Klein ◽  
Daniel Marty ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
Lower Cretaceous ◽  
Southwest China
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