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Ancient China under modern communism: the comparative morphology of pre-communist and communist society

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  • 1962
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  • 2012-11-30T17:12:52Z
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  • The California Geographer 3: 1-25
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  • The consideration of Communist China presents to Americans a compound problem for which there seldom has been adequate material either of descriptive or analytical variety. There is a tremendous literature upon the Ancient China, and a not inconsiderable literature upon the contemporary China. What has been lacking, so far, is a comparative and interpretive literature, that strains out the common denominators and the elements of true difference, and that suggests how the present Communist China can have emerged so abruptly and so completely out of the ancient China. The present discussion is not what might be termed basic research, since it sets forth little that is new to the literature of the two Chinas. It is, rather, a review of the ideas, themes, and workings of the two phases of Chinese society, in an attempt to suggest that the very recent past can be considered to have continuity in the evolution of a single stream of development. 2 These matters are geographically significant in that both the ancient and the Communist China occupy the same landscapes of the earth, deal with the same ethnic units, climatic regimes, natural resources, and agricultural problems. This discussion, then, reviews certain basic patterns of classical society in China, remarks on a variety of cultural processes, and notes the continuities and contrasts in the Communist China of today.
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