Citations:Central Plain

English citations of Central Plain

• 1952, René Grousset, “Chinese Earth”, in The Rise and Splendour of the Chinese Empire‎^[1], University of California Press, published 1970, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 9:

  ASIATIC civilization is the product of “Mesopotamias”, of great alluvial plains where the natural fertility of the soil stimulated man’s agricultural vocation. Such was the case of Babylon in western Asia; such is the case of the “Central Plain” of China in eastern Asia.[...]In the same way that Egypt, according to Herodotus, is a “gift of the Nile”, the Central Plain is a gift of the Yellow River and its tributaries.

• 1961, William Watson, “Introduction”, in China Before the Han Dynasty (Ancient Peoples and Places)‎^[2], New York: Frederick A. Praeger, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 11:

  Within the larger sphere of eastern Asia the Chinese people as we know it today is better defined by language and culture than in anthropological terms. In general a distinction of the physical type may be observed north and south of the Yangtze river, a boundary which corresponded in early times to a cultural division between the relatively advanced civilisation of the Central Plain and the more primitive south.

• 1980, Li Xueqin, 中国青铜器的奥秘 [The Wonder of Chinese Bronzes]‎^[3], Beijing: Foreign Languages Press, →OCLC, page 77:

  The bronzes from a tomb of the Western Zhou at Yiqi, Tunxi, also have some of their own peculiar designs, such as a gui with a weaving pattern commonly seen on bamboo-woven articles of south China, but rarely encountered in the Central Plain.