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Eastward Spread of Wheat Into China – New Data and New Issues
Zhao Zhijun Eastward Spread of Wheat into China – New Data and New Issues Zhao Zhijun* Key words: Wheat–Diffusion Agriculture–History Eurasia Steppe Flotation Northern Frontier Zone From the beginning of the 21st century, flotation tech- Introduction nique has been widely applied by Chinese archaeology It is well known that wheat was originated in the West as means of obtaining ancient plant remains during rou- Asia. It was introduced into China, and eventually be- tine archaeological excavations. Up to the present, flo- came the dominant crop in the dry-land agriculture of tation work has been practiced at more than one hun- Northern China after replacing the major native crops dred archaeological sites of diverse time periods, and of foxtail millet and broomcorn millet. Yet, neither the large amounts of plant remains of high research poten- time when it arrived in China nor the routes through tial have been found, including wheat remains. These which it was introduced are made clear. Therefore, these new discoveries provide significant archaeological evi- are the major problems we are now dealing with. dence for a better understanding of the spread of wheat It has been widely agreed that the introduction of into China, the route and the temporal-spatial background wheat into China should have occurred before the his- in which the introduction events took place. The present torical time, because the script “来”for “wheat”has paper is aimed at synthesizing these new data, referring been identified from records on oracle bones of the Shang to those data of early wheat remains reported in last Dynasty. -
Qingdao As a Colony: from Apartheid to Civilizational Exchange
Qingdao as a colony: From Apartheid to Civilizational Exchange George Steinmetz Paper prepared for the Johns Hopkins Workshops in Comparative History of Science and Technology, ”Science, Technology and Modernity: Colonial Cities in Asia, 1890-1940,” Baltimore, January 16-17, 2009 Steinmetz, Qingdao/Jiaozhou as a colony Now, dear Justinian. Tell us once, where you will begin. In a place where there are already Christians? or where there are none? Where there are Christians you come too late. The English, Dutch, Portuguese, and Spanish control a good part of the farthest seacoast. Where then? . In China only recently the Tartars mercilessly murdered the Christians and their preachers. Will you go there? Where then, you honest Germans? . Dear Justinian, stop dreaming, lest Satan deceive you in a dream! Admonition to Justinian von Weltz, Protestant missionary in Latin America, from Johann H. Ursinius, Lutheran Superintendent at Regensburg (1664)1 When China was ruled by the Han and Jin dynasties, the Germans were still living as savages in the jungles. In the Chinese Six Dynasties period they only managed to create barbarian tribal states. During the medieval Dark Ages, as war raged for a thousand years, the [German] people could not even read and write. Our China, however, that can look back on a unique five-thousand-year-old culture, is now supposed to take advice [from Germany], contrite and with its head bowed. What a shame! 2 KANG YOUWEI, “Research on Germany’s Political Development” (1906) Germans in Colonial Kiaochow,3 1897–1904 During the 1860s the Germans began discussing the possibility of obtaining a coastal entry point from which they could expand inland into China. -
Saving the Flagship Species of North-East Asia
North-East Asian Subregional Programme for Environmental Cooperation (NEASPEC) SAVING THE FLAGSHIP SPECIES THE FLAGSHIP SAVING SAVING THE FLAGSHIP SPECIES OF NORTH-EAST ASIA OF NORTH-EAST ASIA United Nations ESCAP United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific Environment and Sustainable Development Division United Nations Building Rajadamnern Nok Avenue Nature Conservation Strategy of NEASPEC Bangkok 10200 Thailand Tel: (662) 288-1234; Fax: (662) 288-1025 E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Website: <http://www.unescap.org/esd> United Nations ESCAP ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC ESCAP is the regional development arm of the United Nations and serves as the main economic and social development centre for the United Nations in Asia and the Pacific. Its mandate is to foster cooperation between its 53 members and 9 associate members. ESCAP provides the strategic link between global and country-level programmes and issues. It supports the Governments of the region in consolidating regional positions and advocates regional approaches to meeting the region’s unique socio-economic challenges in a globalizing world. The ESCAP office is located in Bangkok, Thailand. Please visit our website at www.unescap.org for further information. Saving the Flagship Species The grey shaded area of the map represents the members and associate members of ESCAP of North-East Asia: United Nations publication Nature Conservation Strategy of NEASPEC Copyright© United Nations 2007 ST/ESCAP/2495 -
6. Tourism Guide 2010 English Version Combined.Pdf
Contents Introduction section Page 1 Introduction to the Greater Tumen Region Page 2 Highlights Page 4 Practical Information Guide section Page 5 China Page 9 Heilongjiang Page 12 Jilin Page 15 Liaoning Page 17 Inner Mongolia Page 19 Mongolia Page 23 Khentii Page 25 Sükhbaatar Page 27 Dornod Page 30 Ulaan Baatar Page 31 ROK Page 35 Gangwon The GTI Page 38 Gyeongbuk The Greater Tumen Initiative (GTI) is an intergovernmental cooperation Page 41 Ulsan mechanism in Northeast Asia, supported Page 43 Busan by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), with a four- country membership: the People’s Page 45 Russia Republic of China, Mongolia, the Republic of Korea and the Russian Federation. Created in 1995, the GTI Page 49 Primorsky Krai has remained a unique platform for Page 53 The Russian Far East promoting economic cooperation and fostering peace, stability and sustainable development in the region. The GTI Page 55 GTI bordering area: DPRK serves as a catalyst for expanding policy dialogue among member states and for strengthening the fundamentals for Page 57 Rajin-Sonbong economic growth. Regional cooperation fostered by the GTI has proven to be an effective way to improve basic infrastructure, ensure energy security, boost tourism development, facilitate trade and investment, and promote environmental sustainability in the region. Introduction to the Greater Tumen Region The Tumen River starts its life over 2,000m above sea level in majestic Tian Chi, a volcanic crater lake surrounded by jagged, snow-dappled peaks. It then proceeds northeast on a gentle, 500km-long journey, one that sees its fish-filled waters pass through three time zones, and brushing against three national borders before emptying into the sea. -
Goldman Et Al. (2016) Monitoring of the Ecological Security in the North-Western Region of the Republic …
ISSN 2056-9386 Volume 3 (2016) issue 3, article 2 Monitoring of the ecological security in the north- western region of the Republic of Sakha, Russian Federation 俄罗斯联邦萨哈共和国西北地区的生态安全监测 Albina A. Goldman, Elena V. Sleptsova, Raissa P. Ivanova Mirny Polytechnic Institute (branch) of Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University (NEFU), Mirny, Tikhonova street 5, build.1, Russian Federation [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Accepted for publication on 3rd September 2016 Abstract – The paper is devoted to the environmental diamonds and hydrocarbon crude are located in western and impact of industrial sector in Western Yakutia and the south-western parts of the republic. The largest diamond, oil role of the Mirny Polytechnic Institute (branch) of the and gas fields are situated in Western Yakutia. Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University in training specialists for oil and gas and diamond mining industries II. INDUSTRIAL SECTORS OF THE REGION and the research carried out at the educational and scientific laboratory of complex analysis of The area of disturbed lands in Mirny district ranks second anthropogenic disturbances of the Institute on in the Republic after the Neryungrinsky district (about 9 compliance with the requirements. thousand hectares). Key words – environment, industry, oil and gas, diamond The history of diamond mining in Yakutia dates back to mining, ecological monitoring, East Siberia. 1954, when prospectors discovered the first diamond pipe, Zarnitsa (‘Summer Lightning’). In 1957 the Soviet I. INTRODUCTION government established Yakutalmaz Group of enterprises, and diamond mining operations commenced. Two years later The Mirny Polytechnic Institute (branch) of the the USSR sold the first parcel of Yakutian diamonds on the Ammosov North-Eastern Federal University is located in the world market. -
УДК 595.789 Dubatolov VV1, Korb SK2, Yakovlev RV3,4 a REVIEW
Biological Bulletin of Bogdan Chmelnitskiy Melitopol State Pedagogical University 445 УДК 595.789 Dubatolov V.V.1, Korb S.K.2, Yakovlev R.V.3,4 A REVIEW OF THE GENUS TRIPHYSA ZELLER, 1858 (LEPIDOPTERA, SATYRIDAE) 1Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences, Frunze str. 11, Novosibirsk 630091 Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 2Russian Entomological Society, Nizhny Novgorod Division P.O.Box 97, Nizhny Novgorod 603009 Russia. E-mail: [email protected] 3Altai State University pr. Lenina 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia, E-mail: [email protected] 4Tomsk State University, Laboratory of Biodiversity and Ecology Lenina pr. 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia A review of the genus Triphysa Zeller, 1858 is presented. One new species Triphysa issykkulica sp.n. (type locality: Kazakhstan, W of Almaty, 800 m) and 8 new subspecies are described: Triphysa phryne kasikoporana ssp. n. (type locality: Kasikoporan [NE Turkey, Agri prov.]), Triphysa striatula urumtchiensis ssp. n. (type locality: Urumtchi), Triphysa issykkulica pljustchi ssp. n. (type locality: W. Kirgiziya, Talasskii Mts., Manas), Triphysa nervosa tuvinica ssp. n. (type locality: N. Tuva, near Kyzyl, Tuge Mt.), Triphysa nervosa arturi ssp. n. (type locality: S. Tuva, 15 km WSW Erzin), Triphysa nervosa kobdoensis ssp. n. (type locality: W. Mongolia, Hovd aimak, 15 km S Khara-Us-Nuur lake, 1300 m), Triphysa nervosa mongolaltaica ssp. n. (type locality: Mongolia, Hovd aimak, Bulgan-Gol basin, middle stream of Ulyasutai- Gol river, 2500−3000 m) and Triphysa nervosa brinikhi ssp. n. (type locality: Russia, Chita Reg., Onon distr., 18 km WSW Nizhniy Zasuchey vill., Butyvken lake, Pinus forest, steppe) are described. -
Climate Change and Human Mobility in Indigenous Communities of the Russian North
Climate Change and Human Mobility in Indigenous Communities of the Russian North January 30, 2013 Susan A. Crate George Mason University Cover image: Winifried K. Dallmann, Norwegian Polar Institute. http://www.arctic-council.org/index.php/en/about/maps. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements .......................................................................................................................... i Executive Summary ........................................................................................................................ ii 1. Introduction and Purpose ............................................................................................................ 1 1.1 Focus of paper and author’s approach................................................................................... 2 1.2 Human mobility in the Russian North: Physical and Cultural Forces .................................. 3 1.2.1 Mobility as the Historical Rule in the Circumpolar North ............................................. 3 1.2.2. Changing the Rules: Mobility and Migration in the Russian and Soviet North ............ 4 1.2.3 Peoples of the Russian North .......................................................................................... 7 1.2.4 The contemporary state: changes affecting livelihoods ................................................. 8 2. Overview of the physical science: actual and potential effects of climate change in the Russian North .............................................................................................................................................. -
Supplementary Information
Supplementary Information Table S1. List of samples that yielded DNA in this study (EE2-EE26), followed by successfully amplified samples of cave lion from the study by Barnett et al. 2009. ALA=Alaska, EUR=Europe, SIB=Siberia, NC=not calibrated as out of range. The asterisk (*) denotes the approximate age as reported in Barnett et al. 2009. Sample CR haplotype/ Uncalibrated Calendar years Site and geographic region ID Genbank nr. 14C date before present EE2 D/ DQ899903 Schusterlucke cave (EUR) 15400 ± 130 18521 ± 1844 EE4 - Tyung, C Siberia (SIB) 46700±1300 48181 ± 6747 EE3 Y3 Tain cave, Urals (EUR) >49600 NC EE6 Y1 Elovka, Baikal (SIB) 18350 ± 75 21634 ± 1504 EE7 Y1 Volchika, C Siberia (SIB) 20085 ± 80 23266 ± 576 EE13 J/ DQ899909 New Siberian Islands (SIB) 47700 ± 800 48970 ± 6009 EE14 Y4 Yakutia, NE Siberia (SIB) >55400 NC EE15 B/ DQ899901 Yakutia, NE Siberia (SIB) 27720 ± 140 30880 ± 1543 EE16 Y2 Irkutsk, Baikal (SIB) 17910 ± 75 21024 ± 1041 EE17 B/ DQ899901 Khroma river, Yakutia (SIB) 19755 ± 80 20006 ± 404 EE19 - New Siberian Islands (SIB) 52000±1500 54373 ± 6396 EE20 J/ DQ899909 Yakutia, NE Siberia (SIB) >62400 NC EE21 G/ DQ899906 Nizhnyaya, C Siberia (SIB) 50500 ± 290 52785 ± 10541 EE26 Y5 (partial) Kyttyk Peninsula (SIB) 36550 ± 290 41025 ± 970 IB133 A/ DQ899900 Gold Run Creek, Yukon (ALA) 12640 ± 75 15016 ± 1463 RB112 A Caribou Creek, Yukon (ALA) n/a - RB74 A Fairbanks Creek, Alaska (ALA) n/a - RB75 A Ester Creek, Alaska (ALA) 12090 ± 80 13822 ± 341 IB134 B/ DQ899901 Gold Hill, Alaska (ALA) 18240 ± 90 21533 ± 1335 IB136 B Hunker -
Book of Abstracts
PICES Seventeenth Annual Meeting Beyond observations to achieving understanding and forecasting in a changing North Pacific: Forward to the FUTURE North Pacific Marine Science Organization October 24 – November 2, 2008 Dalian, People’s Republic of China Contents Notes for Guidance ...................................................................................................................................... v Floor Plan for the Kempinski Hotel......................................................................................................... vi Keynote Lecture.........................................................................................................................................vii Schedules and Abstracts S1 Science Board Symposium Beyond observations to achieving understanding and forecasting in a changing North Pacific: Forward to the FUTURE......................................................................................................................... 1 S2 MONITOR/TCODE/BIO Topic Session Linking biology, chemistry, and physics in our observational systems – Present status and FUTURE needs .............................................................................................................................. 15 S3 MEQ Topic Session Species succession and long-term data set analysis pertaining to harmful algal blooms...................... 33 S4 FIS Topic Session Institutions and ecosystem-based approaches for sustainable fisheries under fluctuating marine resources .............................................................................................................................................. -
JOURNEY SO FAR of the River Drain Towards East Water
n a fast growing city, the place of nature is very DELHI WITH ITS GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS DELHI MASTER PLAN 1962 THE REGION PROTECTED FOREST Ichallenging. On one hand, it forms the core framework Based on the geology and the geomorphology, the region of the city of Delhi The first ever Master plan for an Indian city after independence based on which the city develops while on the other can be broadly divided into four parts - Kohi (hills) which comprises the hills of envisioned the city with a green infrastructure of hierarchal open REGIONAL PARK Spurs of Aravalli (known as Ridge in Delhi)—the oldest fold mountains Aravalli, Bangar (main land), Khadar (sandy alluvium) along the river Yamuna spaces which were multi functional – Regional parks, Protected DELHI hand, it faces serious challenges in the realm of urban and Dabar (low lying area/ flood plains). greens, Heritage greens, and District parks and Neighborhood CULTIVATED LAND in India—and river Yamuna—a tributary of river Ganga—are two development. The research document attempts to parks. It also included the settlement of East Delhi in its purview. HILLS, FORESTS natural features which frame the triangular alluvial region. While construct a perspective to recognize the role and value Moreover the plan also suggested various conservation measures GREENBELT there was a scattering of settlements in the region, the urban and buffer zones for the protection of river Yamuna, its flood AND A RIVER of nature in making our cities more livable. On the way, settlements of Delhi developed, more profoundly, around the eleventh plains and Ridge forest. -
Table of Codes for Each Court of Each Level
Table of Codes for Each Court of Each Level Corresponding Type Chinese Court Region Court Name Administrative Name Code Code Area Supreme People’s Court 最高人民法院 最高法 Higher People's Court of 北京市高级人民 Beijing 京 110000 1 Beijing Municipality 法院 Municipality No. 1 Intermediate People's 北京市第一中级 京 01 2 Court of Beijing Municipality 人民法院 Shijingshan Shijingshan District People’s 北京市石景山区 京 0107 110107 District of Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 人民法院 Municipality Haidian District of Haidian District People’s 北京市海淀区人 京 0108 110108 Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 民法院 Municipality Mentougou Mentougou District People’s 北京市门头沟区 京 0109 110109 District of Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 人民法院 Municipality Changping Changping District People’s 北京市昌平区人 京 0114 110114 District of Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 民法院 Municipality Yanqing County People’s 延庆县人民法院 京 0229 110229 Yanqing County 1 Court No. 2 Intermediate People's 北京市第二中级 京 02 2 Court of Beijing Municipality 人民法院 Dongcheng Dongcheng District People’s 北京市东城区人 京 0101 110101 District of Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 民法院 Municipality Xicheng District Xicheng District People’s 北京市西城区人 京 0102 110102 of Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 民法院 Municipality Fengtai District of Fengtai District People’s 北京市丰台区人 京 0106 110106 Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 民法院 Municipality 1 Fangshan District Fangshan District People’s 北京市房山区人 京 0111 110111 of Beijing 1 Court of Beijing Municipality 民法院 Municipality Daxing District of Daxing District People’s 北京市大兴区人 京 0115 -
Chapter 2 Forgotten History Lessons, Delhi's Missed Date with Water
Jalyatra – Exploring India’s Traditional Water Management Systems Chapter 2 Forgotten history lessons, Delhi’s missed date with water India’s capital is one of the oldest cities of India, indeed of the world, if you believe mythology. It began as Indraprastha probably around 5,000 BC, grew through seven other cities into New Delhi. Among the metros, Delhi is certainly the only one old enough to have a tradition of water conservation and management that developed indigenously and wasn’t imposed by the British. Delhi lies at the tail-end of the Aravali hills, where they merge with the Indo-Gangetic Plains. The Aravalis taper down from the southern to the northern end of Delhi, forming one watershed. Along the southern side, they run east-west forming another watershed. All the drains and seasonal streams flow north and east in Delhi, some making it to the river Yamuna, others terminating in depressions to form lakes and ponds. These artificial ponds helped recharge wells, that were the only source of water in the rocky Aravali region, and the baolis that also tap into groundwater flows, in the rest of the city. The rocky Aravalis were ideal for bunding and making more such depressions to store water that was used either by people or recharged the aquifers. In south Delhi and a little beyond, there are many artificial lakes and ponds created centuries ago for just this purpose. The western part of Delhi falls in the Najafgarh drain’s watershed, which was originally a river that rose in the Sirmaur hills in Haryana.