Analysis of field size distributions, LACIE test sites 5029, 5033, and 5039, Anhwei Province, People's Republic of China

A study was made of the field size distributions for LACIE test sites 5029, 5033, and 5039, People's Republic of China. Field lengths and widths were measured from LANDSAT imagery, and field area was statistically modeled. Field size parameters have log-normal or Poisson frequency distributions. These were normalized to the Gaussian distribution and theoretical population curves were made. When compared to fields in other areas of the same country measured in the previous study, field lengths and widths in the three LACIE test sites were 2 to 3 times smaller and areas were smaller by an order of magnitude

Market Integration and Economic Development: A Long-run Comparison

How much of China's recent economic performance can be attributed to market-oriented reforms introduced in the last two decades? A long-run perspective may be important for understanding the process of economic development occurring today. This paper compares the integration of rice markets in China today and 270 years ago. In the 18th century, transport technology was non-mechanized, but markets were close to being free markets. We distinguish local harvest and weather from aggregate sources of price variation in a historical sample and in a similarly constructed contemporary sample. Findings indicate the degree of market integration in the 1720s is a very good predictor of per capita income in the 1990s. Moreover, the current pattern of interregional income in China is strongly linked to persistent geographic factors that were already apparent several centuries ago, well before the enactment of modern reform programs.

Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China’s Economic Geography

China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China’s prefecture cities over the period 1999-2005. Second, and by using our estimation results as input, we simulate various long-run scenarios of China’s internal economic geography that differ in their degree of interregional labor mobility. We find that increased labor mobility will lead to more pronounced core-periphery outcomes. Interestingly, these agglomerations are not necessarily along the coastal regions. Given the increased importance of China’s internal market, firms agglomerate in the populous heartland of China. China’s internal demand will be the most important determinant of its future economic geography.Empirical and Theoretical Methods

The Origins of Spatial Interaction

Geography shapes economic outcomes in a major way. This paper uses spatial empirical methods to detect and analyze trade patterns in a historical data set on Chinese rice prices. Our results suggest that spatial features were important for the expansion of interregional trade. Geography dictates, first, over what distances trade was possible in different regions, because the costs of ship transport were considerably below those for land transport. Spatial features also influence the direction in which a trading network is expanding. Moreover, our analysis captures the impact of new trade routes both within and outside the trading areas. We also discuss the long-run implications this might have.

Raman spectroscopy characterization of 10-cash productions from the late Chinese emperors to the Republic

This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Montoya, Noemí, Montagna, Elena, Lee, Yu, Domenech Carbo, Mª Teresa, Doménech Carbó, Antonio. (2017). Raman spectroscopy characterization of 10-cash productions from the late Chinese emperors to the Republic.Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 48, 10, 1337-1345. DOI: 10.1002/jrs.5218 , which has been published in final form at http://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.5218. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.[EN] The use of Raman spectroscopy for discriminating monetary emissions, a recurrent problem in much archaeological studies, is described. The method involves the record of Raman signatures of tenorite and crystalline and defective cuprite in the patina based on the idea that subtle, mint-characteristic variations in the composition and metallography of the base metal during the manufacturing process are reflected in the variation in depth of the composition and crystallinity of the corrosion patina. The technique was applied to a series of 10-cash copper coins produced around the transition between the Kuang Hsu and Hsuan Tung last Chinese emperors and the first Republic whose averaged composition was 95 +/- 1% wt Cu plus 5 +/- 1% wt Zn often accompanied by traces of Sn and Pb. Raman data, corroborated by focusing ion beam-field emission scanning electron microscopy and voltammetry of immobilized particles measurements, suggested the possibility of discerning between different provincial and regular unified currency productions.MINECO, Grant/Award Number: CTQ2014-53736-C3-1-P and CTQ2014-53736-C3-2-PMontoya, N.; Montagna, E.; Lee, Y.; Domenech Carbo, MT.; Domenech Carbo, A. (2017). Raman spectroscopy characterization of 10-cash productions from the late Chinese emperors to the Republic. Journal of Raman Spectroscopy. 48(10):1337-1345. https://doi.org/10.1002/jrs.5218S13371345481

新中国成立初国立安徽大学教育学科发展钩玄

新中国成立初期,国立安徽大学保留的安徽省唯一一个教育学科,经不断发展,成为如今安徽多所高校教育学科的源头。期间,国立安徽大学教育学科的布局进行了调整,成立教学机构,培养专门人才;师资队伍不断完善,遴选了教育学科带头人,优化了教师的年龄和专业结构,规范了行政管理,为学科发展理顺了关系;教育学科的人才培养重视新生招录、课程改革和学业考核等各个环节,人才培养硕果累累;教育学科的学术研究特色鲜明,也渐有起色。国立安徽大学教育学科建设既继承了原来的优良传统,又顺应了时代发展趋势。国立安徽大学教育学科的嬗变不仅为该学科自身发展奠定了基础,而且为当代中国教育学科的发展做出了自己应有的贡献

A survey of the silk industry of South China

208 pages, Agricultural bulletin / Ling Nan Agricultural College, Canton Christian College, Dept. of Sericulture ; no. 12https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/moore/1056/thumbnail.jp

Hazel Todd History Notes

Historical notes as well as a letter from Hazel to her mother. Dates range from 1932 to 1941.https://digitalcommons.whitworth.edu/hazel_todd/1005/thumbnail.jp

Chinese Communist Materials at the Bureau of Investigation Archives, Taiwan

During the long years of civil strife in China the Nationalist authorities amassed extensive materials on their Communist adversaries. Now stored in government institutions on Taiwan, these materials are an excellent source for the study of the Chinese Communist movement. Among them is the Bureau of Investigation Collection (BIC), which holds over 300,000 volumes of primary documents on the Chinese Communist movement. The purpose of Chinese Communist Materials is, without any attempt at comprehensive listing of the Bureau’s holdings, to give scholars a representative description of the collection, to point out its implications for research, and suggest new areas for research at the Bureau in the fields of political science and history [1, 4]

An Ambassador for Christ: George Pleasant Bostick

A biography about George Pleasant Bostick written by his third wife, Lena Stover Bostick. Discusses Bostick\u27s pastorates (in Concord, First Baptist Durham) and missionary work in Shantung province and Anhwei province.https://digitalcommons.gardner-webb.edu/baptist-historical-collections-bostick-family-missions/1003/thumbnail.jp