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Geography
(731 words)
The geosciences have a long-standing tradition in China. In accord with the (obvious) orientation towards military geography and the resulting early forms of cartography and toponymy (study of place-names) of the Spring and Autumn period, the central areas of today's China had been surveyed to a great extent. An extensive postal system and traffic network, which was at least equal to that of the Roman Empire, further facilitated the transfer of distance parameters and topographic features to official documentation. Pre-Christian literary sources such as the
Shujing (
Book of Histo…
Source:
Brill’s Encyclopedia of China
Geology
(729 words)
In the guise of petrography and mineralogy, Chinese geology has a long-standing tradition. The relation between the economy and local mineral resources is discussed in numerous chapters of the book
Guanzi (approximately 1st c…
Source:
Brill’s Encyclopedia of China