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Southwest China

open access: yes, 2017
China’s Southwest, lacking locally grown cotton, had imported raw cotton, cotton yarn, and cotton cloth. Among our five village sites in mountainous Yunnan and Guizhou, differences in the distance from industrial centers and the railway allowed some villages to specialize in hand woven textiles and other commercial crafts while other villages relied ...
Laurel Bossen, Hill Gates
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Empire and Historiography in Southwest China

open access: yes, 2018
Abstract Although frontier studies enjoy a long and robust history in China, a disproportionate amount of attention has focused on North China and its relations with Central and Northeast Asia, while only a handful of historians have paid much attention to the history of South and Southwest China.
John Herman
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Patterns of tree species richness in Southwest China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2021
As a region known for its high species richness, southwest China plays an important role in preserving global biodiversity and ensuring ecological security in the Yangtze, Mekong, and Salween river basins. However, relatively few studies focus on the response of tree species richness to climate change in this part of China.
Shuangfei Lu   +9 more
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Agricultural Drought Risk Assessment in Southwest China

open access: yesWater (Switzerland), 2019
Drought disasters jeopardize agricultural production and are expected to become more serious in the context of global climate change. However, in China, little attention has been paid to evaluating agricultural drought risk in humid areas (such as in ...
Wenxiang Wu, Zhaolei Li, Yang Zhou
exaly   +2 more sources

The Dian Culture in Southwest China

2022
Abstract The excavations of Bronze Age sites in the Central Lake region of Yunnan have resulted in a wealth of burial goods, including bronze kettledrums and cowrie vessels from the Shizhaishan necropolis near Lake Dian. Multidisciplinary analyses of these materials point to the existence of hierarchical societies of the Dian culture ...
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China's Encounters on the South and Southwest

2015
China's Encounters on the South and Southwest. Reforging the Fiery Frontier Over Two Millennia discusses the mountainous territory between lowland China and Southeast Asia, what we term the Dong world, and varied encounters by China with this world's many elements.
James A. Anderson, John K. Whitmore
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Epidemiologic investigation of geriatric burns in Southwest China

Burns, 2009
To study the epidemiologic characteristics of burns in the elderly patients to reduce risks.Features, including causes, seasonality, co-morbidities and mortality among 280 burned patients over 60 years old, admitted to Burn Unit, Southwest Hospital from 1999 to 2006, were analyzed retrospectively.The incidence of burns in the elderly has been ...
Xiaolu, Li   +3 more
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Quilts of Southwest China

2016
For over 3,000 years in Southwest China, traditional bed coverings and other household items have been expertly fashioned, like American quilts, from small pieces of fabric patched and appliquéd together to form artistic yet functional textiles. Accompanying a groundbreaking exhibition of the same name, Quilts of Southwest China sheds light on this ...
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Establishment of rocky desertification index in Southwest of China

2014 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2014
Rocky desertification is a type of land desertification. It comes from the fragile ecological and geological environment, where the human activity is very strong and the land productivity is degraded severely. As a natural disaster, rocky desertification is very destructive, and it is very difficult to be recovered.
Lanying Yuan   +7 more
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Inhalation injury in southwest China—The evolution of care

Burns, 2010
This study aims to review the changes in management of inhalation injury and the associated reduction in mortality over the past 2 decades.The records of burn patients with inhalation injury hospitalised in our institute from 1986 to 2005 were retrospectively analysed.
Gaoxing, Luo   +8 more
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