Talk:Physiographic macroregions of China

Chinese characters
I'd love to add characters but my computer (at work) doesnt have the capacity. So please anyone with the will and the way... I do plan to add maps they are forth coming.Calabashhh 20:11, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * You might get them via a Google search by cutting and pasting. Badagnani 21:28, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Other regions
You can find some other regions here. Some of them may overlap. Badagnani 20:41, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Yeah I saw that thanks Calabashhh 20:28, 4 May 2007 (UTC)

Who came up with the macro-regions?
Is "macro-regions" an indigenous Chinese term? If so, what's the Chinese name for this? If not, which foreign scholar came up with this idea? Badagnani 20:42, 3 May 2007 (UTC)


 * This is an idea proposed by G.W. Skinner of Stanford. It is not an indigenous term, and I do not know what the Chinese translation is. The idea is touched upon by Jonathan Spence in his Search for Modern China.

Calabashhh 21:07, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

Eight, not nine, macroregions?
Lloyd E. Eastman's "Family, Fields and Ancestors" states that there were eight macroregions in Late Imperial China: "A second of Skinner's analytic insights is that of China's eight 'macroregions'...The topogrophy of China breaks the nation into eight drainage basins..." (Pg 120). So were there eight or nine macroregions in later imperial China?