The Many Faces of China

Abstract

I went to China in October 1958 at the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. The purpose of the trip was to meet Chinese geographers, to discuss with them the exchange of geographical material, and to see something of the changing geography of China. I started from Canton, in the Pearl River lowland, sub-tropical China with its fields of rice and sugar cane, its banana and bamboo groves.

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