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The Study Of The Utopian Geography Of China

Posted on:2007-06-06Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:X H WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360185493070Subject:Historical geography
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Utopian ideal society represents a surrealistic picture of future society in the cultural beyond the real world, people sent an ideal for the political, economic, cultural, interpersonal, and the geographical environment to Utopian ideal society. The paper focuses the actually China's Utopian geography, which is pursued by the ancient Chinese people as the perfect geographical environment vision for years. These geographic ideals do not exist in isolation, which in turn reflect in the development of human thought and civilization, provide us with a new genre of historical thinking: from the mythic Utopia of the closed nature of the spirit of the geographic environment ,then demands to the Utopia of immortal story for the religious affiliation of geographic ideal, and then to agricultural Utopia that the ideal model is the beginning of agricultural society, until the Ming Qing period the overseas Utopia ideal returned , and geographic expansion in the China's Utopian geography levels ,and so on.This article attempts to analyze the development of the China's Utopian geography lines from multiple angles and dimensions, each will has a distinct geographical ideal of the times, and the stage of development of mutual proved era; At the same time the ideal of human geography have consistently identity. Until now, the harmony between People and nature is still the common geographic ideal of the whole mankind.
Keywords/Search Tags:Utopian geography, mythic utopia, the utopia of immortal story, agricultural utopia, overseas utopia
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